NEW LICENSE! Maruo Suehiro's LUNATIC LOVERS. To be translated by me and published by Bubbles probably in Winter 2025-26.

Tesuka Osamu (a manga artist) is looking for a live-in helper. Must like kids, no experience necessary. Room and board provided and 8,000¥ a month w/ two raises a year. Lists his address in Nerima ward.

Face Meat (antología) - Bonten Taro (1967-1969). Compilado por Ryan Holmberg y Kunisawa Hiroshi, y publicado por Living The Line bajo su imprenta Smudge.

An astounding time for translated manga!

Do yourself a favor and read this spectacular triple review of our first three Smudge titles!

Check out my FAVORITE comics that I’ve read in 2025… SO FAR! Ft. Comics from Jaime Hernandez, Living The Line, Fantagraphics, Jack Kirby Museum, Cyril Lieron, Alex Graham, Titan Comics and more! Watch the video here: youtu.be/kvYDlj6aW2o?si…

Kinokonga mushroom monster in Toei's Spiderman series, aired December 1978, so after Shirakawa Marina's Kinokonga manga (1976), aka UFO Mushroom Invasion Living The Line.

Now available for preorder: My Gorilla Family The 5th volume of Living The Line's SMUDGE line, this profound horror story collection features 14 mind-melting stories created by Iijima Ichiro. Releases September 9th, 2025. merrymanga.com/shop/manga/my-…

Another awesome pickup from our weekend tabling at CAKE was Face Meat! A fabulously trashy and violent collection of fourteen of Bonten Taro's stories released by the folks Living The Line! #gekiga #BontenTaro livingtheline.company.site/products/FACE-…

Ayer me llego esta joya del maestro multifacetico Boten Taro, esta vez con una obra fuera de lo que normalmente se lo conoce (o pocos conoceran), inundado totalmente en el género terror demostrando que tranquilamente pudo ser un pionero, hermosa edición de Living The Line

Let's see your LtL/Smudge titles in the wild!

Excellent duelling reviews of Mansect by Koga Shinichi up on The Comics Journal today, by Leonard Pierce and Sean McCarthy, respectively! Currently nominated for an American Manga Award for Best New Edition of Classic Manga 2025 tcj.com/reviews/mansec…

Preorder: My Gorilla Family! Living The Line uncivilizedbooks.com/my-gorilla-fam…

Phenomenal review by Sean McCarthy for THE COMICS JOURNAL of Koga Shinichi's Mansect, the third release of the Living The Line imprint, Smudge, which recently released the vintage horror mangas: Her Frankenstein and UFO Mushroom Invasion! #manga #KogaShinichi tcj.com/reviews/mansec…

"Visual delight all throughout." Incredible video review of Emil Friis Ernst's Womb Rider on the Living The Line channel.

Many thanks to Carson Grubaugh of Living The Line for his thoughtful critique of our most recent comic, Absolute Simultaneity! #dystopiancomics #altcomics youtu.be/2SGyx1oZ-T0?si…

Today I’m reviewing The Pit by Erik Kriek from Living The Line 📚 youtu.be/LscBRK5v9pU?si… #erikkriek #comics #comicbooks #indie #livingtheline #comicart #cartoonist #europeancomics #thecomicbookreport

Mansect by Koga Shinichi and UFO Mushroom Invasion by Shirakawa Marina, are now back in print and in stock at Living the Line hq! The bulk of the two printings are now on the way to our new distributor, who will be announced soon. In the meanwhile, reach out for bulk orders!

James Romberger's For Real tell a harrowing real life war time story from Jack Kirby's life. It is bookeneded with an essay exploring the ways the war experience influenced Jack Kirby's comics. Check out a new video review by Living The Line see link below.