Five allegorical sci-fi tales of trancendence, humanity's evolution, and an escape from the destructive politics of the present. PICNOLEPTIC INERTIA is the first comprehensive collection of comics by Stathis Tsemberlidis, bringing together the very best of his short works produced over the last five years for Decadence Comics, the influential publishing collective he co-founded with the artist Lando. Combining Cronenbergian metamorphosis, Lovecraftian fungi, and radical politics, Tsemberlidis's silent world is one of transformative mysticism and violent revolution. His frenetic, staccato pen lines beautifully describe a destructive present unfolding amid the ruins of the past.

Picnoleptic Inertia

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Breakdown Press

Ding Dong Circus collects the best of Sasaki Maki's work from alt-manga super magazine Garo. Drawn between 1967 and 1974, the fifteen stories within follow Sasaki's unprecedented exploration of collage methods in comics storytelling. Weaving through references to the Beatles, the Vietnam War, and Andy Warhol, Ding Dong Circus demonstrates that Sasaki was not only a manga pioneer, but also an essential figure in Japanese Pop Art and the critical avant-garde art scene of the 1960s.

Ding Dong Circus

Maki, Sasaki

Manga

It is 1969, and famed artist Seiichi Hayashi has decided that his comics, having flirted with pop, need some heart and soul. He turns to the moody graphics of old kashihon gekiga and the sentiments of Japanese enka blues. "Because of you, my long life will be withered with frost. This fading shadow of an empty shell ... our love." So laments the heart-broken bar hostess of Flowering Harbour, one of the classic works of the legendary alternative manga magazine Garo.

Flowering Harbour

The first collection of Windowpane, Joe Kessler's critically-acclaimed series of progressive narrative comics, is a showcase of the cartoonist's mastery of form and colour. 
Windowpane is Joe Kessler's one-man-anthology of short-narrative, experimental, sometimes-allegorical comics. Collecting material from previous issues, this beautiful edition printed in offset lithography is the perfect backdrop for Kessler's quietly disconcerting, hallucinogenic work. It is a visual delight that showcases the unrestrained talent and mastery of one of the UK's most exciting cartoonists.

Windowpane

Arts & Photography

Joe Kessler

Graphic Design

Seasonal Shift collects a selection of comics by Lala Albert, made between 2013 and 2019. Ethereal, unsettling and intimate, these genre-hopping examinations of identity and nature demonstrate that Albert is a master of the formally-inventive contemporary comic.\n"An important, long-overdue collection of work from one of our generation's singular cartoonists. Lush, paranoid and visionary comics." - Michael DeForge\n”Reading Seasonal Shift is like holding a rare insect in your mouth, its dry wings beating against your tongue and the walls of your cheek, and imagining - in the moments before your teeth come together - all the different ways that it could taste” - Gretchen Felker-Martin\nThis book is part of the Library of Contemporary Comics, a series of publications collecting shorter works by the best cartoonists currently working in the medium.

Seasonal Shift Comics 2013-2019

Lala Albert

Haway Man, Klaus! is the first full-length collection of comic strips charting the un-adventures of Klaus, Richard Shortx27s pensive, anthropomorphic cat. Reinvigorating the classic comic strip, Short salutes Charles Schulzx27s Peanuts, Tove Janssonx27s Moomins and Japanese cartooning masters, before veering quickly into an original, strange and utterly unique world of screwball comedy and poetic rumination. Shortx27s wit, at times gentle, at times acerbic, is expressed through his mastery of clear-line cartooning, revealing a tapestry of relatable human emotion through a cast of offbeat characters. Occupying a wholly original space in the current landscape of cartooning, Haway Man, Klaus! breathes new life into the comic strip format.

HAWAY MAN, KLAUS]

Richard Short

Publishers

\x27You never know what you\x27re gonna step in next.\x27 With these words scrawled across the bottom of the page Leomi Sadler sets their stall out for their thrilling collection of short comics work, Tummy Bugs. Set across fantastical and distorted natural landscapes, Sadler weaves obscure snapshot narratives that attract and repulse the reader in equal measure. Frequently dealing in fantasy, science fiction and the world of nature, with characters that are fluid, naive and absurd, Sadler\x27s comics are elliptical and thought provoking. The characters are as elusive as Sadler\x27s art style, moving rapidly from revelation to damnation on the same page. Sadler moves through prose, painting, watercolour and pen and ink, their characters and worlds blending into a Kafkaesque distortion as assumed \x27reality\x27 is replaced and reborn. Leomi Sadler occupies a completely unique space in comics, existing at the intersection of cartooning, street art, graffiti and high fashion. Sadler\x27s art style more frequently recalls the frenetic energy of Jean\-Michel Basquiat than other contemporary cartoonists. Collecting Leomi Sadler\x27s energetic work for the first time, Tummy Bugs serves as both an introduction and a retrospective to Sadler\x1a\x27 deeply personal and exciting cartooning voice.

Tummy Bugs

Sadler, Leomi

An expanded edition of Dougal Dixon's classic illustrated work of speculative biology, published to celebrate the book's 40th anniversary. Features a new cover and more than 10 pages of never before seen sketches and production material. In 1981 St Martin's Press published After Man, the first edition of palaeontologist Dougal Dixon's vision of an 'alternative evolution': one without mankind. To some, this was seen as sacrilege, but Dixon himself only ever saw the decision to obliterate his own species from his vision as a practical one. Reflecting in the new foreword he has written exclusively for this edition, he notes, 'the book was about the natural forces of evolution, and man, with his big feet and his big hands, had too much of an influence, twisting the course of nature away from anything that can be predicted. With the removal of this interference I was able to let nature get back to work'. While some of the creatures rent from Dixon's imagination seem every bit as fantastical to a modern reader as they appeared to readers in the early '80s, others now don't seem so very far-fetched. From Dixon's foreword: 'There are now the walking bats of New Zealand - not quite as extreme and spectacular as 'The Nightstalker', but getting there. Fossils of even larger species of these bats are now being found in the same region. Then there are the snakes in Mexico that live in caves and snatch flying bats out of the air, just like 'The Anchorwhip'.

After Man: Expanded 40Th Anniversary Edition

DIXON, DOUGAL

Science & Math

Baby Boom is the latest in Breakdown Press’s line of English language editions of work by influential Japanese artist Yokoyama Yuichi.\nYokoyama's comics are entirely unique: free from the traditional modes of narrative, his work explores motion, sound and structure, generating striking, beautifully graphic stories that propel the reader into a world of onomatopoeia, speed, and visual noise. Collecting 39 short pieces, each drawn with bright markers, Baby Boom uses polychromy in symbolic and rhythmic ways to create a musical, visually extraordinary experience.\nWith a cover design by Jean-Philippe Bretin, an essay by manga academic Ryan Holmberg, and an interview with Yokoyama himself, this new English language edition, masterfully printed using Pantone spot colours, brings together Yokoyama’s most ground-breaking work to date.

BABY BOOM

Ryan Holmberg

Yuichi Yokoyama

I Wish I Was Stupid

Yoshikazu, Ebisu

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