Mangaverse 7.1 Leiji Matsumoto tribute

Here is the link for the latest Mangaverse zine, a tribute to Leiji Matsumoto who passed away this year:
LINK

I'm posting it here for the time being until it can be put up on the N3F website where all the other ishes are here.

The cover

One of favorite things I did for this ish

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