Face Meat, Taro Bontem, Ryan Holmberg.
In English, 240 pages in black and white, softcover, 15.24 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm, Living the line June 2025
A busty headless blonde, a face-stealing psychopath, a sleazy serial killer sculptor, a handsome, hunchback, a vengeful traitorous caterpillar, a torturous hangover in the depths of hell.
Welcome to the bawdy and macabre world of FACE MEAT, the brainchild of the decadent imagination of all-round outlaw Bonten Taro -- ex-kamikaze, ex-yakuza, singer, songwriter, actor, world-famous tattoo artist, husband of seven wives, and underrated pioneer of femme fatales of "pink violence" and adult horror manga. While Mizuki Shigeru and Umezz Kazuo paved the way for horror in shonen and shojo magazines in the 1960s, Bonten secretly did the same in men's erotic magazines - and the results are as trash as one might expect. With an essay by Bonten enthusiast and B-gekiga expert Kunisawa Hiroshi, FACE MEAT includes fourteen hair-raising, pant-lifting stories that have never before been gathered under a single cover in any language!
