A review by chelseamartinez
Cigarette Girl by Masahiko Matsumoto

5.0

This is a great collection of stories from the 1970s; as the front matter discusses, the everyday subject material was out of vogue at the time but depicts non-fantasy life in Japan so well (I am going to visit in March and it has given me a picture of how I might want to spend my time exploring cities and towns). I will admit that the right-to-left format still slows me down and possibly prevented me from getting some of the visual gags or story elements, but I just need to read more in this format. I love the way street noise and exclamations are illustrated and would love to see a short film based on the condom selling!