Tokyo These Days (2024)

After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits, sure that early retirement is the only way to make up for his failures, and then finds that manga is not finished with him. Matsumoto's late style is calmer and more open than the early books, with quiet Tokyo streets and pauses that let each conversation breathe, and few comics have looked this closely at what making manga costs the people who do it. Viz released all three volumes in 2024. The following year it won both an Eisner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for graphic novels. Best read after a couple of his earlier books, when the craft it talks about is familiar.