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Coming Dec 2025, the first installment of The Complete Charles Dana Gibson, a collection of America's greatest cartoonist. Featuring stunning repro and an introductory essay by Sean Michael Robinson, A Widow and Her Friends features three of Gibson's greatest mid-period works.

@ShowSlimShady This has still been a problem for upcoming books that were listed with diamond originally but is not affecting any others thankfully!

@ShowSlimShady Our new distributor CRWN has been updating dates as they changd. The issue with those previous titles was with the data coming from old Diamond, which persisted and would not allow us to update things. 1/2

I've been falling behind with Smudge manga from @LivingtheLine_. Finally got My Gorilla Family, The Girl Who Raised the Dead is already out and I have Naono Yoshiko's Hide and Seek to look forward to in April. All translated by the unstoppable @mangaberg. x.com/i/status/19451…

Max Fleischer’s granddaughter has been funding these restorations on her own and we’d really appreciate if we can get the public support on the blu ray. It will help us get more out of the vault and keep the legacy alive. Thank you!

Good morning, friends and neighbors! Today is Friday, March 6, 2026. A good day! This book, The Girl Who Raised The Dead by Kawashima Norikazu, is from the SMUDGE series of 70’s and 80’s horror manga. From the back… “Originally published in 1987, THE GIRL WHO RAISED THE DEAD marks the triumphant return of cult horror legend Kawashima Norikazu. Drawn a year after his masterpiece HER FRANKENSTEIN, this brutal yet charming manga shows Kawashima slathering paranormal teen magic in slasher gore. With an essay by manga and anime blogger Tanaka Hirokazu, THE GIRL WHO RAISED THE DEAD is the sixth volume of SMUDGE, a series of vintage horror, occult, and dark fantasy manga curated and translated by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg and published by Living the Line.”

@SpecterDragon78 @GiftedRebelsCo Looks like an error at the bindery! An equipment snag. Be sure to put a note in your return so hopefully they dont put it back in circulation. Hope you enjoy the book!

@GiftedRebelsCo @LivingtheLine_ First one I’ve bought just arrived today with this printing error so that upset me. I’m going to return it soon but I was so excited to read it and found this after just a few pages.

The last volume in the current Smudge imprint and it is awesome! The girl who Raised the Dead is horror “lite” done at its best. @LivingtheLine_ #manga #horror #retro

I had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Stevens who is publishing Stephen Bissette’s magnum opus, Tyrant! Designed by: @jimruggart Production by: @OgdenSMR of @LivingtheLine_ Check out the video interview here: youtu.be/am_sij2RuiE?si…

@JVskunkape @GiftedRebelsCo @mangaberg Internationally price wise you are far better off getting our books elsewhere! Intl shipping is very expensive. We have sub distro thru Diamond UK and Ingram so any shop should be able to get them

@GiftedRebelsCo @mangaberg @LivingtheLine_ Think I've just seen them on Amazon UK. Can't work out if their site ships here so probably gonna order there 😇

Who doesn’t want a Gorilla Family? Another smash hit from @mangaberg and @LivingtheLine_ on their smudge imprint. #manga #retro

Insect horror hits in a way like no other. Mansect by @LivingtheLine_ is a manga that will leave you changed (and for those who know, they get the pun). #smudge #retro #manga

ANNOUNCEMENT 2 As you may already be aware @starfruitbooks founder and publisher Matt Haasch passed away last September. In line with his wishes I have been working with Matt’s mother and the rest of the Star Fruit Books team to ensure continuation of their publishing work.

Some of the best things in life are free. Picking up Manga and Comics at the library. Two of the best I’ve read in months. Royal city by Jeff Lemire and Claymore. #comics #manga

From the mind of a failed kamikaze pilot and a failed yakuza gangster comes… FACE MEAT on the new smudge imprint from @LivingtheLine_ #manga #retro

Enfin il est à moi 😊😊

And I bring you the second volume in the new Smudge imprint from @LivingtheLine_ Be prepared for the ultimate B sci-fi horror tale, UFO Mushroom invasion. #manga #horror

The best way to feast on retro manga. @LivingtheLine_ new Smudge imprint will knock your socks off. Her Frankenstein is a horror like manga other by a creator who burned his art and disappeared after.

Hide and Seek by Naono Yoshiko “From the shadowy back pages of bright and sunny shojo magazines.. a collection of twelve tales of trauma.. from the early 1970s.. the seventh volume of SMUDGE.. vintage horror, occult, and dark fantasy manga..” Living the Line (MAR 2026)

Congratulations to Dave Sim (CEREBUS, STRANGE DEATH OF ALEX RAYMOND) for his much-deserved (and belated) entry into the Eisner Hall of Fame! Entering with inspiration Abe Kanegson no less... comicsbeat.com/eisner-awards-…

This SMUDGE line is just so insanely rad. This is Japanese exploitation manga horror at its finest. @LivingtheLine_