My Gorilla Family - Iijima Ichiro

My Gorilla Family and Other Stories of Human Horror by Iijima Ichiro, translated by Ryan Holmberg and published in the Smudge imprint from Living the Line Books / 216-page paperback, 6 x 8 inches, published 2025 / b/w art

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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, separating your soul from your body, or bioengineering a sex beast? If so, MY GORILLA FAMILY is for you!

Comprising fourteen mind-melting stories from the early 1970s, Iijima Ichiro's MY GORILLA FAMILY offers an intimate, profoundly humanistic--and profoundly disturbing--introduction to one of the most bonkers imaginations in the history of Japanese comics. With an essay by wacko-manga archaeologist Onishi Shohei, MY GORILLA FAMILY is the fifth volume of SMUDGE, a line of vintage horror, occult, and dark fantasy manga curated and translated by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.