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translator Ryan Holmberg The publisher announced on Instagram on Thursday life on the line With permission from Taro Brahma Noodle meat Comics are famous for their horror mark, “The Stain.” Holmberg is translating the comics.
The comics listing on Barnes & Noble describes the comic:
A headless busty blonde, a face-stealing psychopath, a despicable serial killer sculptor, a horny handsome Igor, a cuckold caterpillar man, a torturous daydream of entering the abyss of hell. Welcome to the crass 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 , a husband of seven, and an underappreciated “pinky” pioneer of violence, femme fatales and adult horror comics.
While Shigeru Mizuki and Umezz Kazuo were paving the way for horror in 1960s shounen and girls’ magazines, Wen Tian was secretly doing the same thing in pornographic men’s rags – with results that were as trashy as you’d expect. Written by Bonten booster and B-gekiga expert Kunisawa Hiroshi, FACE MEAT contains 14 chilling stories that have never before been combined under one cover in any language!
Holmberg said the comic’s expected release date is May 2025.
life on the line Smudge describes Smudge as “a collection of classic pulp, horror and dark fantasy comics curated and translated into English by award-winning historians Ryan Holmberg”. Kawashima Noriwaof her frankenstein is the first title under the imprint. Other titles in the imprint include Shirakawa Hama Rinaof UFO mushroom invasion (Zhenli Yanfan movie) comics and Koga Shinichiof Mansekert (wanted).
source: Ryan HolmbergInstagram account
