Living The Line
@LivingtheLine_
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Publisher of visually-spectacular graphic novels & comics, including the SMUDGE line of historic horror manga. Founded by artist Sean Michael Robinson.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Joined February 2022
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.
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3/2 . and preorders are of course still available at We welcome your thoughts, support, and aggressive but tender animal love.
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News 7-2-2025 -- My Gorilla Family by Iijima Ichiro is now available for preorder! Face Meat (Bonten Taro), The Pit (Erik Kriek), Mansect (Koga Shinichi), and Roihu (Kutikuti) are now available...
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2/2 by preordering a copy or twelve for your closest friends and family! This will be our first Lunar solicit, through the Uncivilized Books portion of the Lunar catalog Retailers: if you want to see LtL avail through Lunar, please make your initial order as generous as possible.
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You have ten more days to get your LCS to order Iijima Ichiro's My Gorilla Family from the Lunar catalog! Small pubs have been hit hard by the Diamond legal battle, but you can do your part by ensuring that the latest (and weirdest) Smudge horror manga, gets into comic shops .
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RT @comicbookrpt: Today I’m reviewing The Exile by Erik Kriek from @LivingtheLine_ 🗡️. #comics #erikkriek #comicar….
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RT @Quanticat: actually yeah I do think it's cool and important to publish ppl who have never been published anywhere before alongside supe….
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Currently on press in Quebec! 50 years on from initial publication in Black Punch, Iijima Ichiro continues to shock, appall, and satiate. You'll find out for yourself soon! My Gorilla Family is almost here.
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RT @unciv: James Romberger's For Real tell a harrowing real life war time story from.Jack Kirby's life. It is bookeneded with an essay expl….
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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!
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RT @comicbookrpt: Today I’m reviewing The Pit by Erik Kriek from @LivingtheLine_ 📚. #erikkriek #comics #comicbooks….
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RT @unciv: "Visual delight all throughout." Incredible video review of Emil Friis Ernst's Womb Rider on the @LivingtheLine_ channel. https:….
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RT @PlasticGrapes99: Many thanks to Carson Grubaugh of @LivingtheLine_ for his thoughtful critique of our most recent comic, Absolute Simul….
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RT @PlasticGrapes99: Phenomenal review by Sean McCarthy for @ComicsJournal of Koga Shinichi's Mansect, the third release of the @LivingtheL….
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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.
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Let's see your LtL/Smudge titles in the wild!.
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RT @Ramanga1994: Ayer me llego esta joya del maestro multifacetico Boten Taro, esta vez con una obra fuera de lo que normalmente se lo cono….
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RT @PlasticGrapes99: Another awesome pickup from our weekend tabling at CAKE was Face Meat! A fabulously trashy and violent collection of f….
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RT @MerryMangaCo: Now available for preorder: My Gorilla Family. The 5th volume of @LivingtheLine_'s SMUDGE line, this profound horror stor….
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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,...
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