In the comic Honyaradô no ben-san ("M. Ben of the Igloos"), published in June 1968, a traveling comics writer puts up at the so called "inn of M. Ben", a poor house almost buried by the snow and hold by M. Ben, a grumpy old man hiding in a clumsy way a real sympathy for his unexpected visitor.

Honyaradô no ben-san ©Tsuge Yoshiharu

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