Originally published in 1976, Shirakawa Marina’s UFO MUSHROOM INVASION is unanimously considered a masterpiece of Japanese sci-fi horror.
UFO MUSHROOM INVASION is the second volume of SMUDGE, a line of classic pulp, horror, and dark fantasy manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.
Publisher Living the Line’s Smudge horror imprint confirmed with ANN on Sunday that it will publish Marina Shirakawa’s UFO Mushroom Invasion (Shinryaku Enban Kinokonga) manga in English for the first time.
Living the Line describes Smudge as “a line of classic pulp, horror, and dark fantasy manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.”