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22/05/2024

Currently doing preparation work for the massive Moonray book 2 pre-order fulfillment which will likely start sometime next week. Various bonus items including a stack of 80 lovely 6x9 sketches by Brandon have arrived and I am gathering everything and packing it as best I can in preparation for the 450 plus copies that were pre-sold. If you haven't ordered a copy yet please let your comics retailer or bookstore know that you can't go without this stunning science fantasy epic in the making!

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14/05/2024

New interview with translator/scholar/editor Ryan Holmberg on our new line of historic horror manga, SMUDGE!

"It’s a line of horror...the classic era of horror manga in Japan before horror manga magazines became the norm and Ito Junji stormed the field."

's introduces you to its offering of classic horror manga. Full interview: https://previewsworld.com/Article/274517

09/05/2024

We've just received two advanced copies of the award- winning Viking epic The Exile by Erik Kriek , which has now been reprinted and will soon be heading towards North America! This is a stunning book, and happens to be our very first reprinted Living the Line title. The reprint will be hitting stores in July...

04/05/2024

About 18 hours after the second batch of books arrived at Headquarters, all of the pre-orders for Her Frankenstein have shipped! Next stop, your mailbox. Next stop after that, comic stores and book stores across English language countries everywhere!

There's a lot of positive feelings around this one on my end. Both the feeling of bringing Kawashima Norikazu's incredibly intense work out of obscurity and into English language readers' hands for the first time. But also the feeling that, if the audience is there for it, we will be able to do this again and again and again. There is so much amazing unmined territory out there in historic horror manga collections, and we are hoping you all are here for it all with us.

More on this book next week as we approach the comic store and bookstore releases!

03/05/2024

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14/04/2024

Bonus items have been arriving in preparation for the arrival of Her Frankenstein! The book should be here sometime in the next week, and pre-orders will ship immediately. Comic store and bookstore release to follow in May!

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12/04/2024

Italian edition of Strange Death of Alex Raymond spotted in the wild by Living the Line artist and Globetrotter Matt Battaglia at a train station in Rome! Claims he could see it from across the train station, and based on those Pantone colors I believe it...

What's the most far-flung location you've seen one of our books? Let us know in the comments...

05/04/2024

An unbound copy of Moonray Book 2 has arrived from the printer and it is gorgeous. Just a few days left to pre-order the book yourself and get a foothold in the greatest ongoing science fantasy epic in comics.

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05/04/2024

There are just a few days left to preorder Moonray Book Two, the continuing science fantasy epic from Brandon Graham and Xurxo G. Penalta! This post-human graphic novel follows the Man of Miium as he explores his strange and terrifying world, and presents a mind-altering new dawn for a distant sci-fi future unlike any other.

Get your preorder in now at your local comic shop, bookstore, or directly from Living the Line on Kickstarter!

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03/04/2024

There are just a few days left to preorder Moonray Book Two, the continuing science fantasy epic from Brandon Graham and Xurxo G. Penalta! This post-human graphic novel follows the Man of Miium as he explores his strange and terrifying world, and presents a mind-altering new dawn for a distant sci-fi future unlike any other.

Get your preorder in now at your local comic shop, bookstore, or directly from Living the Line on Kickstarter!

03/04/2024

There are just a few days left to preorder Moonray Book Two, the continuing science fantasy epic from Brandon Graham and Xurxo G. Penalta! This post-human graphic novel follows the Man of Miium as he explores his strange and terrifying world, and presents a mind-altering new dawn for a distant sci-fi future unlike any other.

Get your preorder in now at your local comic shop, bookstore, or directly from Living the Line on Kickstarter!

21/03/2024

17/03/2024

A huge congratulations to Miel Vandepitte for winning a 2024 MoCCAArts Fest Award of Excellence for his debut graphic novel Centralia, out now from Living the Line. Unfortunately Miel had to leave for the airport about 5 minutes before they issued the award! Here's hoping he hears the news in the airport over the Wi-Fi :-)

16/03/2024

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15/03/2024

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09/03/2024

It's ALIVE! Her Frankenstein by Kawashima Norikazu, the debut title from our line edited and translated by has been printed and bound and is on a ship bound for the Americas... And here's the proof! Ten advanced copies of the book airmailed to Smudge Headquarters this morning. Books should be arriving in April, for immediate release to preorders, and comic shops qme bookstores to follow soon after.

Excited for Smudge and a new line of horror manga goodness? Let us know in the comments! Hoping to put the second Smudge title, UFO Mushroom Invasion, to bed in a few weeks...

07/03/2024

Moonray book two- Echoes of Ascension, is up for pre sale on Kickstarter or from your local comic shop or bookstore!

The post-human being known as Adam is now separated from his companions and explores a strange alien world strange world. Pursued by the cold cruel collective Hive mind cult, he’s chased through The Undertown of malformed half-men and escapes into a living sentient city. 160 pages, oversize 7.33” x 11” lavishly-produced hardcover book.

Written and drawn by Eisner and Diamond Gem award-winning author and artist Brandon Graham (PROPHET, KING CITY, RAIN LIKE HAMMERS) and featuring a second story beautifully drawn artist Xurxo G. Penalta, Moonray presents a mind-altering new dawn for a distant sci-fi future unlike any other. This next step in the bold graphic odyssey continues the Moonray saga, from comic book to video game and beyond.

Introduction by filmmaker and illustrator Sylvain Despretz. .

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strangedeath/moonray-echoes-of-ascension-by-brandon-graham-xg-penalta

04/03/2024

...aaaand just like that, we have approval! See you on Thursday, folks, it's gonna be a big one... Link is now in bio! Follow early and often...

26/02/2024

The good news -- Finnish comics anthology Tihku by is here, and it is absolutely gorgeous! Better yet, you have 24 hours left to pre-order it on Kickstarter before I start sending out all of our orders. The bad news though, is that due to a mishap at the printer and the vagarities of international shipping, the majority of the copies that made it to the United States have varying levels of damage on them. I'm currently sorting through the issue and will make sure that only nice looking books ship,, but that combined with a limited print run means that this will be the scarcest Living the Line book yet.

So if you're interested in getting a copy of this stunning anthology that peers into vistas unknown, I would highly recommend that you pick one up now! Books will begin shipping this week :-)

24/02/2024

Would you believe we are less than a week away from preorders being open for Moonray Book Two, the continuing science fantasy epic by Brandon Graham and Xurxo G Penalta? Soon to be available to pre-order from your local comic shop, bookstore, or directly from Living the Line on Kickstarter.

Just like last time, the first direct orders from us will receive these massive 2 ft by 3 ft gorgeous Moonray posters.(tall 8-year-old pictured for scale!) These posters were also sent out to 1,300 of our closest retailer friends for display in their shops.

Keep an eye on our Instagram or sign up on our mailing list at livingthelinebooks.com for up to date news!

Moonray Book Two, coming in June of 2024. Presale coming.. next week?

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22/02/2024

Wait a second...can that possibly be real original art from Marina Shirakawa's UFO Mushroom Invasion, the second book from our line of horror manga? Well... Not exactly. Hoping to solve the mystery fpe sure by the August 2024 release of the book! ( But I think I have a pretty good handle on it now...)

Be on the lookout for more announcements about Smudge and UFO Mushroom Invasion soon!

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15/02/2024

We're happy to announce that we'll be joined this year at MoCCAArts Fest by Centralia author Miel Vandepitte, who will be visiting all the way from Brussels!

Miel will be signing all weekend at the Living the Line booth, as well as taking part in a panel at the event (and at least one other appearance as well!) We hope you'll come by, say hello, and pick up a copy of Centralia if you haven't already!

MoCCAArts Fest runs Match 16th and 17th in New York City. Hope to see you there!

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07/02/2024

We at Central just received a "fold and gathered" copy of Norikazu Kawashima's Her Frankenstein. This is essentially the finished book, but unbound, just awaiting approval before the rest of the copies will be bound and shipped. And it is gorgeous. We spent a long time picking out the paper and other materials for our Smudge line of books, and I do believe we've hit it out of the park with this one.

Her Frankenstein is available to pre-order now, either from us directly in our bio, or from your favorite comic book store or bookstore. The book itself will be out in May, and I hope you all will pick up a copy of this remarkable lost masterpiece of horror.



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02/02/2024

Early last week werl received an unbound untrimmed laser printer proof from the printer who is handling Her Frankenstein, to confirm pagination and overall positioning. One step closer to the actual book! A reminder that you can preorder Her Frankenstein NOW from any major comic store or book store, or direct from Living the Line Books (link in bio!). We rely on preorders to keep cash flow going during that long sea voyage. Preorders from us will ship at the end of April, a week or two in advance of comic store release, and will include a Her Frankenstein bookmark and Smudge sticker!

However you get it, we hope you'll pick it up and enjoy it, and help us spread the word about the new Smudge manga line. We have quite a few amazing books in the pipeline, works that will change some of the received narratives about genre work in comics.

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01/02/2024

Further production work today on Marina Shirakawa's UFO Mushroom Invasion, the second title from our SMUDGE manga line. It turns out that every single reprinting of this classic horror title has been shot from an original copy of the book, not the original artwork, so we've taken a precious original bunko sized copy and put it to the knife (and the microwave!). The things we do for image quality...

The original printing looks stunning. And so will our English edition!

UFO Mushroom Invasion, coming August 2024...

30/01/2024

Here comes the manga horror event of the season. It's printed, it's on the way to the States via freighter, and preorders are NOW OPEN!

https://livingtheline.company.site/products/

Dare to read the psycho-horror classic that horror manga master Ito Junji called a “frightening but moving story about an unfortunate individual who, lost in search of his true self, finds his own annihilation instead.”

Little Tetsuo is a wimpy mess. His parents don’t love him. He meets the beautiful Kimiko, an ailing teenage girl obsessed with movies and mayhem in equal amounts. She doesn’t love Tetsuo either, or anyone other than herself. But she needs him. So Tetsuo becomes the man she wants—the monster she wants. He becomes HER FRANKENSTEIN!

Originally published in 1986, Kawashima Norikazu’s HER FRANKENSTEIN marks the bizarre and sadomasochistic finale to a cult era in Japanese horror comics. A few years after it was published, the author burned all of his artwork and abandoned Tokyo, never to be heard from again! HER FRANKENSTEIN is the inaugural volume of SMUDGE, a line of pulp, horror, and dark mystery manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.

Link in bio!

24/01/2024

On Kickstarter for presale now!
In February 2024, a window opens to another graphic world, new vistas of comics unseen. Visions of Nordic introspectiveness, occult pocket watches, suburban drifting, untamed forests and butterfly appreciation all come together in a sticky weave of cutting-edge Finnish comics storytelling.

Tihku is a joint work by twelve artists and the first part in a series. Kutikuti is an association and collective of about sixty contemporary comic artists living in Finland.

Tihku - drizzle. Meteorologically, drizzle consists of small drops of precipitation about 1mm in diameter. Drizzle can be easily seen on your glasses but it doesn't make rings on puddles. Drizzle falls from banks of fog.

These graphically-rich experimental comics give a view of the world of graphic possibilities inherent in the medium. Though the contributors vary in art style, the project is conceptually unified by the two-color printing and exquisite design work by Finnish design master Benjamin Bergman.

22/01/2024

What is that manga cover I spy on the Publishers Weekly Spring Graphic Novels preview? Why I do believe it's Kawashima Norikazu's Her Frankenstein, coming soon for preorder from our new manga imprint Smudge!



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