 Massive! Overwhelming! All-Consuming! Friends, The past two months at Living the Line have been… a lot. Let’s begin with the obvious: the absolutely ludicrous one-man fulfillment on Brandon Graham’s PIllow Fight. Massive! Overwhelming! All-consuming!Pillow Fight enters your mailbox with swagger and confidence… It was almost TWO MONTHS of fulfillment for Brandon Graham’s new all-color 80-page expanded Pillow Fight, and a second publication, a bonus 60-page sketchbook of completely unseen, completely NSFW sketchbook goodness. And while a picture tells a thousand words, these pictures aren’t quite communicating the smell of book glue, which I used to adhere various extras to the printed books. If you missed it, don’t fear. Overprinted copies are available on the website now!  In the interest of public accountability: I am hereby publicly declaring that this will be the last Kickstarter I will ever fulfill by myself. There is an unresolvable tension between wanting you all to get amazing complicated stuff, and then actually having to fulfill every aspect myself.Fortunately, our new distributors CRWN Studios also happen to be experts in fulfillment. Future campaigns will be handled by them.  HARPY Making Waves Steer over to The Comics Beat for a look at Harpy, a late-breaking contender for the hardest-hitting science-fiction graphic novel of 2025. A massive 308-page book that brings the dystopian 2060s into unnervingly plausible focus. In Harpy, competence and class division grind together with revenge and obsession, forging a graphic novel that stands proudly in the lineage of Shirow, Otomo, and Druillet—brutal, cerebral, sensual, and impossible to ignore. And from the creator, Mr. EPHK himself: “I gave 2 whole years of my life to make this fat brick… It’s the best and the hardest and the most work I ever put into anything.”  SMUDGE Expands Preorders are open for Naono Yoshiko’s HIDE AND SEEK Ordinary human feelings, understandable mistakes—leading to horrific disaster and scarring regret. If you assume childhood is golden for everyone, you’re wrong… DEAD wrong.From the shadowy back pages of bright and sunny shojo magazines comes twelve tales of trauma from the early 1970s. With an essay by the author, this is SMUDGE volume seven.Free domestic shipping on preorders. And looking ahead:SMUDGE NEW YEAR ANNOUNCEMENT! Fall 2026… Tokunami Seiichiro’s THE HUMAN CLOCK! If not the most famous kashihon horror manga, then certainly the weirdest…No blurb for now. This manga is beyond description.  Now Up for Preorder: The Rabagoo Race At LONG LAST.Available from Livingtheline.com, your local bookstore via CRWN or Ingram, or from Lunar (listed under Uncivilized Books).The Rabagoo Race, the most famous boat race in the world, sees contestants face certain death throughout its frantic stages… Mega sea monsters. Riptide hell storms. Whip-smart competitors. Garresh’s debut graphic novel “everages complex gallery-worthy abstraction and impeccable color and figurative work into comic pages of unsettling power.This debut puts Garresh square in the center of an international graphic tradition stretching from Moebius to Cam Kennedy to Linnea Sterte, Taiyo Matsumoto, and beyond.Domestic preorders ship FREE.  More Kutikuti! Already printed, already arrived, but somehow not yet in our store! Vyory, the latest anthology from Finnish cartoonist collective Kutikuti, will be in stores and/or your mailbox in a matter of weeks! All three of these March titles are available through CRWN or through Lunar (listed under Uncivilized Books. Thanks Tom!). That Lunar order period is closing soon, so if you’re planning to pick up one of these books from your local comic shop, you’d best move fast!  Charles Dana Gibson — Coming in April! Ho ho ho! My personal very late Christmas present was receiving some advanced copies of The Complete Charles Dana Gibson 1899–1901A tour of the work of one of the most famous and influential cartoonists of all time, now largely forgotten, although his social influences persist…Prepare yourself. What’s Next Next Kickstarter: CONSIGNED — a special anthology featuring Living the Line creators past and future, a fundraiser for our ongoing legal efforts to get our stock and payments back from our former distributor. Confirmed contributors include Ryan Holmberg, Troy Nixey, Lonnie Nadler, Carson Grubaugh, Brandon Graham, Garresh, Jason Little, Miel Vandepitte, Bonten Taro, Hanelle (Kutikuti), Erik Kriek, myself, and more. Not many publishers this size would have survived this past year of legal shenanigans and tumultuous changeovers. That we have is entirely a tribute to the incredible audience we have, and the incredible work done by our cartoonists.Truly some of the greatest and most interesting in the world. Thank you for being part of it. |
