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# Living the Line

graphic novels on the edge

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- [Mother Please Don't Give Birth to a Monster](https://livingtheline.com/mother-please-dont-give-birth-to-a-monster/) - Mother Please Don't Give Birth to a Monsterby Marina Shirakawa208 page6" x 8" MOOOO! Lady Momon cries out, ready for her meal. MOOOO! Baby sister bleats, cold and miserable. As a young teen, sweet Miki learns the bizarre truth about her family: for centuries, they have harnessed half-cow, half-human beasts known as “kudan” for their
- [CONSIGNED is Live NOW!](https://livingtheline.com/consigned-is-live-now/)
- [MASSIVE! OVERWHELMING! ALL-CONSUMING!](https://livingtheline.com/massive-overwhelming-all-consuming/)
- [March Movement and More Manageable Momentum!](https://livingtheline.com/march-movement-and-more-manageable-momentum/)
- [House on Fire](https://livingtheline.com/house-on-fire-by-matt-battaglia/) - by Matt Battaglia Is she sick, or is it the world itself? HOUSE ON FIRE, the debut graphic novel by writer/artist Matt Battaglia, teases out the difference in a personal-political cruise through a fallen world, where fear is rational and obedience your only refuge. Battaglia depicts the near-future landscape of House on Fire with wild
- [PLAZA by Yokoyama Yuichi](https://livingtheline.com/plaza-by-yokoyama-yuichi/) - Bigger, bolder, and louder than ever before, neo‑manga artist Yokoyama Yuichi is back in English with PLAZA! Inspired by Carnaval in Brazil, PLAZA offers a maniacal extravaganza of marching, dancing, leaping, firing, cheering, smashing, and exploding over the course of 225 eye‑and‑eardrum‑confounding pages. Originally published in Japan in 2019, this oversize English edition of PLAZA
- [Strange Death of Alex Raymond](https://livingtheline.com/strange-death-of-alex-raymond-by-dave-sim-and-carson-grubaugh/) - by Dave Sim and Carson Grubaugh Legendary creator Dave Sim is renowned world-wide for his groundbreaking Cerebus the Aardvark. Now, in The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, Sim brings to life the history of comics' greatest creators, using their own techniques. Equal parts Understanding Comics and From Hell, Strange Death is a head-on collision of ink drawing and spiritual intrigue, pulp comics and movies,
- [Mansect](https://livingtheline.com/mansect-by-koga-shinichi/) - by Koga Shinichi Humans grow and age. They change. But always we are the same person, the same creature. Not so with insects, whose powers of metamorphosis alter not only their shape and size, but also their very beings. And now, because of one young man's unhealthy obsession with bugs, humans also find themselves transformed
- [UFO Mushroom Invasion](https://livingtheline.com/ufo-mushroom-invasion-by-marina-shirakawa/) - “UFOs are one of the world’s greatest mysteries...and I hope they stay that way. For the day that aliens reveal themselves may very well become the beginning of the end of life on Earth as we know it!” A flying saucer crashes deep in the mountains of Japan. Wary of the hyper-intelligent beings they find
- [Moonray: Mother's Skin](https://livingtheline.com/moonray-mothers-skin/) - Moonray: Mother's Skin by Brandon Graham and Xurxo G. Penalta In a post-human world, the man of miium is born. Created to avenge a slain goddess, our nameless warrior travels an unrecognizable landscape, constantly evolving with new wonders and terrors: Zanikam pirates, deadly reflections, a living bridge, and a red tear in the sky. Written
- [Sala ni Yalo: Path of the Shades](https://livingtheline.com/sala-ni-yalo-path-of-the-shades/) - Sala ni Yalo: Path of the Shades by Clarence Dass Waking up at the banks of Wai ni Yalo as a Shade, a young warrior must make his way to the mountains of Nakauvadra, dwelling place of the gods. There amongst the Kalou Yalo, the spirits of his ancestors, the Shade will find rest. The
- [Harpy](https://livingtheline.com/harpy/) - by EPHK Be careful who you hunt down—you might find them. 2064, Cape Town. Clouds roll down Table Mountain into the city bowl, letting the neon signs and burning lights take over for the evening. The Seawall keeps the tides at bay, the ramparts keep the townships out, but nothing keeps the bodies from dropping
- [The Girl Who Raised the Dead](https://livingtheline.com/the-girl-who-raised-the-dead/) - The Girl Who Raised the Dead by Kawashima NorikazuEdited and translated by Ryan Holmberg KRRRAK BOOM!! A young woman is struck dead by a bolt of lightning. But then a miracle—her charred body rises into the air and absorbs an eerie orb of light. When the girl comes back to life, she discovers that she
- [HARPIES, RESURRECTIONISTS, and DISTRIBUTORS, Oh My!](https://livingtheline.com/harpies-resurrectionists-and-distributors-oh-my/)
- [Jan 2025 Roundup-- living that Smudge Life](https://livingtheline.com/jan-2025-roundup-living-that-smudge-life/)
- [The Complete Charles Dana Gibson: A Widow and Her Friends (1899-1901)](https://livingtheline.com/the-complete-charles-dana-gibson-a-widow-and-her-friends-1899-1901/) - by Charles Dana Gibson Essay and edited by Sean Michael Robinson The Complete Charles Dana Gibson: A Widow and Her Friends (1899-1901) is the first of a three-volume series dedicated to the complete bibliography of perhaps America’s greatest-ever cartoonist, the incomparable Charles Dana Gibson. This first book in The Complete Charles Dana Gibson will present
- [My Gorilla Family](https://livingtheline.com/my-gorilla-family/) - by Iijima Ichiro Edited and translated by Ryan Holmberg Have you ever pondered what it would be like to marry a gorilla? Or to have your deepest desires granted by a satanic genie? Have you ever considered sacrificing your children to culinary aliens, separating your soul from your body, or bioengineering a sex beast? If
- [SMUDGE Nominations for 2025 American Manga Awards!](https://livingtheline.com/smudge-nominations-for-2025-american-manga-awards/)
- [The Pit](https://livingtheline.com/the-pit-by-erik-kriek/) - The Pit by Erik Kriek In the aftermath of personal tragedy, Hugh and Sara retreat to an old family home in the woods of the Veluwe in the hopes of getting their lives back on track. But can you run fast enough to escape the past? And what do those strange glyphs carved into the
- [The Abolition of Man](https://livingtheline.com/831-2/) - by Carson Grubaugh, Midjourney AI, Luciano Floridi, and Sean Michael Robinson "The Abolition of Man is a thorough test drive of AI image making, and the results are extraordinary, appalling, compelling, cold, hot, beautiful, repellant, and should be abolished." ― Dave McKean, Prompt, Sandman, CagesConceived of and executed by fine-artist/educator/philosopher turned Eisner Award nominated cartoonist,
- [Moonray: Echoes of Ascension](https://livingtheline.com/moonray-echoes-of-ascension/) - In a post-human world, the Miium warrior Adam is now separated from his companions and ventures through a strange, fractured landscape. Pursued by an alien Hive cult, he navigates an undercity of malformed half-men and a living, sentient metropolis. Written and drawn by Eisner and Diamond Gem award‑winning creator Brandon Graham (PROPHET, KING CITY, RAIN LIKE
- [Face Meat](https://livingtheline.com/face-meat/) - Face Meat by Bonten Taro A headless busty blonde, a face-stealing psychopath, a sleazy serial‑killer sculptor, a horny handsome hunchback, a vengeful caterpillar cuckold, a torturous hangover in the pits of hell. Welcome to the raunchy and gristly world of FACE MEAT, from the decadent imagination of outlaw polymath Bonten Taro—ex‑kamikaze, ex‑yakuza, singer, songwriter, actor, world‑famous tattooist,
- [Her Frankenstein](https://livingtheline.com/her-frankenstein/) - Her Frankenstein by Kawashima NorikazuTranslated and curated by Ryan Holmberg A 2024 New York Public Library Selection for Best New Comics of the YearPublishers Weekly Top 10 Must-Read Manga of 2024 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
- [Tihku](https://livingtheline.com/tihku/) - by Kutikuti Tihku 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
- [Roihu](https://livingtheline.com/roihu/) - Roihu by Kutikuti What would the suburbs look like if fire was never invented? Can a person get pregnant from a single look? What's it like growing up as the only gay person in a village in Lapland? Another carefully woven set of cutting-edge Finnish comics storytelling. Roihu—/roîhu/—means "blazing flames," and is the astronomical term
- [Centralia](https://livingtheline.com/centralia/) - Centralia by Miel Vandepitte 2024 MoCCA Arts Fest Award of Excellence Recipient Wandering in a World on Fire. The ground in and around Centralia has warmed so much, it’s impossible to stand on without melting. Those who survive long enough will be confronted with carnivorous birds, collapsing buildings, and the trigger-happy Simia Nasalis, armed with
- [Face Meat, Rabagoo Race, and More!](https://livingtheline.com/face-meat-rabagoo-race-and-more/)
- [Legal trouble. Lost inventory. But great books keep coming.](https://livingtheline.com/legal-trouble-lost-inventory-but-great-books-keep-coming/)
- [Diamond, Ad Populum, Face Meat, and More](https://livingtheline.com/diamond-ad-populum-face-meat-and-more/)
- [Surviving on Mars](https://livingtheline.com/surviving-on-mars/) - Surviving on Mars by Brandon Graham If you're going through hell, KEEP GOING. From daily routines and art-making, to dealing with depression, and living among porn performers in Las Vegas, Eisner-award-winning cartoonist Brandon Graham (King City, Rain like Hammers, Prophet, Moonray) offers a funny and touching look into the life of an artist making his
- [MOONRAY Release, signings, and more! Oct 2023](https://livingtheline.com/moonray-release-signings-and-more-oct-2023/) - Those of you who backed our Moonray campaign will know that the past month has been relatively crazy over here, even for our typical overworked standards. I sent out more than 500 packages in a nine-day period to fulfill that campaign, with more to come as a few other campaign surveys (and new orders!) trickle in.
- [Moonray Book Two, MoCCAFest 2024!](https://livingtheline.com/moonray-book-two-moccafest-2024/)
- [Lost Horror Manga Masterpiece from Living the Line: HER FRANKENSTEIN by Kawashima Norikazu](https://livingtheline.com/lost-horror-manga-masterpiece-from-living-the-line-her-frankenstein-by-kawashima-norikazu/)
- [TIHKU is HERE! UFO Mushroom INVASION and more…January Brings A Boatload of Living the Line News](https://livingtheline.com/tihku-is-here-ufo-mushroom-invasion-and-morejanuary-brings-a-boatload-of-living-the-line-news/)
- [HER FRANKENSTEIN presales live!](https://livingtheline.com/her-frankenstein-presales-live/)
- [UFO Awards, Surviving on Mars, and more!](https://livingtheline.com/ufo-awards-surviving-on-mars-and-more/)
- [Smudge, Moonray, and More!](https://livingtheline.com/smudge-moonray-and-more/)
- [the PIT, Mansect splash down!](https://livingtheline.com/the-pit-mansect-splash-down/)

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- [ABOUT](https://livingtheline.com/about-us/) - Living the Line Living the Line is a publisher of visually-spectacular graphic novels & comics, including the Smudge line of historic horror manga. Living the Line's award-winning publications include an Eisner nomination (Strange Death of Alex Raymond, Best Reality-Based Work), two MoCCA Arts Fest Awards of Excellence (2023, The Exile, 2024, Centralia), many Starred reviews
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- [The Abolition of Man Deluxe Edition by Carson Grubaugh et al](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/abolition-of-man-hardcover-collection/)
- [Centralia by Miel Vandepitte](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/centralia-by-miel-vandepitte-standard/)
- [Surviving on Mars](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/surviving-on-mars/)
- [PLAZA by Yokoyama Yuichi](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/plaza-by-yokoyama-yuichi/)
- [Rabagoo Race by Garresh](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/rabagoo-race-by-garresh-preorder-for-march-free-domestic-shipping-on-preorders/) - The Rabagoo Race by Garresh 108 page full-color book $20 The Rabagoo Race, the most famous boat race in the world, sees contestants face certain death throughout its frantic stages, all in the impossible hopes of reaching that mythical finish line, and winning everything their hearts desire. Only three ships have survived the 100
- [FACE MEAT by Bonten Taro](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/face-meat-by-bonten-taro-united-states/)
- [Mother Please Don't Give Birth To A Monster Preorder for July!](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/mother-please-dont-give-birth-to-a-monster-preorder-for-july/) - MOOOO! Lady Momon cries out, ready for her meal. MOOOO! Baby sister bleats, cold and miserable. As a young teen, sweet Miki learns the bizarre truth about her family: for centuries, they have harnessed half-cow, half-human beasts known as “kudan” for their wealth and power. And soon, another shall be born. The hour approaches. Her
- [UFO Mushroom Invasion T-SHIRT! preorder for July](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/ufo-mushroom-invasion-t-shirt-preorder-for-july/) - FREE SHIPPING WITH PREORDER. Wear your Smudge on your sleeve with a 100 percent cotton tee featuring a terrifying mushroom monster from Shirakawa Marina's UFO Mushroom Invasion! This slick graphic tee will ship alongside copies of Shirakawa's new book, Mother Please Don't Give Birth To a Monster.
- [UK In a Bad Way and Other Stories SIGNED/NUMB PREORDER FOR AUGUST](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/uk-in-a-bad-way-and-other-stories-signed-numb-preorder-for-august/) - Free domestic shipping for all preorders on this title! This is for SIGNED AND NUMBERED copy! UK In a Bad Way And Other Stories is the long-awaited first collection of comics by award-winning writer/artist James Harvey (Masterplasty, Doom Patrol, Phoo Action and Lifehouse for comics, Love Death + Robots and Metal Gear Solid for screens). The
- [Vyory by Kutikuti](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/vyory-by-kutikuti/) - A deluge, an avalanche, a landslide. A mass of a substance such as earth or rocks falling or sliding rapidly downwards. Vyory is a joint work by twelve comic artists, and is the third book in a series from Kutikuti, an association and collective of about sixty contemporary comic artists living in Finland.
- [UK In a Bad Way and Other Stories by James Harvey PREORDER FOR AUGUST](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/uk-in-a-bad-way-and-other-stories-by-james-harvey-preorder-for-august/) - Free domestic shipping for all preorders on this title! UK In a Bad Way And Other Stories is the long-awaited first collection of comics by award-winning writer/artist James Harvey (Masterplasty, Doom Patrol, Phoo Action and Lifehouse for comics, Love Death + Robots and Metal Gear Solid for screens). The collection includes his graphic novella UK
- [Moonray Book One by Brandon Graham and Xurxo G Penalta](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/moonray-book-one-by-brandon-graham-and-xurxo-g-penalta/)
- [Moonray Book Two by Brandon Graham and Xurxo G Penalta](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/moonray-book-two-by-brandon-graham-and-xurxo-g-penalta/)
- [Hide and Seek by Naono Yoshiko](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/hide-and-seek-by-naono-yoshiko/) - Preorder for March 2026! $20 236 pgs 6" x 8" Little Hiroshi, embarrassed about the gaudy overalls his beloved grandmother knitted for him. Cute Mariko, jealous about her baby brother. Sweet Sachiko, worried about the iron she forgot to turn off before leaving on a family trip. Ordinary human feelings, understandable mistakes—leading to horrific disaster
- [The Exile by Erik Kriek](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/the-exile-by-erik-kriek-standard-hardcover/)
- [Her Frankenstein by Kawashima Norikazu-- UNITED STATES](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/her-frankenstein-by-kawashima-norikazu-united-states/)
- [ROYALTY REPORT by Brandon Graham](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/royalty-report-by-brandon-graham/) - [preorder for shipping in late January!] ADULTS ONLY 6" x 9" 60 pages full color ROYALTY REPORT is a 2025 sketchbook presentation that features the erotic work of Mr. Brandon Graham, everything from on-the-spot sketches, comic-formatted comics reviews, diary pages, and id-forward ink spolooshes. A fascinating peek into the erotic world of Brandon Graham.
- [The Complete Charles Dana Gibson — A Widow and Her Friends (1899-1901)](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/the-complete-charles-dana-gibson-a-widow-and-her-friends-1899-1901/) - Essay and edited by Sean Michael Robinson The Complete Charles Dana Gibson: A Widow and Her Friends (1899-1901) is the first of a three-volume series dedicated to the complete bibliography of perhaps America’s greatest-ever cartoonist, the incomparable Charles Dana Gibson. This first book in The Complete Charles Dana Gibson will present the most beloved and long-form of Gibson’s influential graphic-novel works, The Education of Mr. Pip and A Widow and Her Friends. The book features stunning reproduction, laboriously sourced and restored from the best possible sources, gorgeous printing that gives unparalleled insight into why Gibson was one of America’s greatest artistic and cultural exports during the decades in which he worked. The book also includes a long biographical essay by series editor and production artist Sean Michael Robinson that contextualizes Gibson’s work for a modern audience, illuminating his progressive politics, his wry humor, and the explosive mark-making that influenced generations of fine artists and illustrators.
- [Girl Who Raised the Dead](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/girl-who-raised-the-dead-preorder-for-nov/) - KRRRAK BOOM!! A young woman is struck dead by a bolt of lightning. But then a miracle-her charred body rises into the air and absorbs an eerie orb of light. When the girl comes back to life, she discovers that she possesses amazing telepathic powers. She can move objects. She can force people to do
- [Harpy by EPHK](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/harpy-by-ephk-preorder-for-late-september-release/)
- [House of Fire by Matt Battaglia](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/house-of-fire-by-matt-battaglia/)
- [MANSECT by Koga Shinichi](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/mansect-by-koga-shinichi/)
- [MY GORILLA FAMILY by Iijima Ichiro](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/my-gorilla-family-by-iijima-ichiro-united-states-preorder-for-september/)
- [Moonray SKETCHEZ Development Book OVERS LIMITED STOCK](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/moonray-sketchez-development-book-overs-limited-stock/)
- [Sala Ni Yalo: Path of the Shades](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/sala-ni-yalo-path-of-the-shades/)
- [The Pit by Erik Kriek](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/the-pit-by-erik-kriek-hardcover-gn/) - In the aftermath of personal tragedy, Hugh and Sara retreat to an old family home in the woods of the Veluwe in the hopes of getting their lives back on track. But can you run fast enough to escape the past? And what do those strange glyphs carved into the old beech trees really mean?Erik Kriek's latest graphic novel is a contemporary work of magical realism, that is not set in the dark forests of North America (In the Pines, Fantagraphics, 2017), nor in the cold hills of medieval Iceland (The Exile, Living the Line, 2023), but in the rural countryside of the Netherlands.
- [UFO Mushroom Invasion by Shirakawa Marina](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/ufo-mushroom-invasion-by-shirakawa-marina/) - A flying saucer crashes deep in the mountains of Japan. Wary of the hyper-intelligent beings they find inside, the government hides from the public all news of the alien craft. But it’s not the strange visitors themselves that they should be afraid of―the real danger is the parasitic spores smuggled aboard! Will Earth survive the UFO MUSHROOM INVASION?!
- [Roihu by Kutikuti](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/roihu-by-kutikuti/) - What would the suburbs look like if fire was never invented? Can a person get pregnant from a single look? What's it like growing up as the only gay person in a village in Lapland? Another carefully woven set of cutting-edge Finnish comics storytelling.Roihu is a joint work by twelve artists and the second part in a series. Kutikuti is an association and collective of about sixty contemporary comic artists living in Finland. Roihu/'roîhu/Blazing flames. The astronomical term is solar flare; a powerful but transitory emission of the Sun.
- [Tihku by Kutikuti](https://livingtheline.com/livingtheline/tihku-by-kutikuti/) - 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.

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