Breakdown Press is a comics publisher based in London, UK, dedicated to publishing the very best in comics art, whether the cutting edge work of new cartoonists or undiscovered classics of the past.
NEW RELEASES FOR SUMMER/AUTUMN ’23
Books! Prints! Festivals!
WHAT AWAITS THEM
by Liam Cobb
Paperback 180 x 255mm, 126 pages, offset printed, softcover
£22.99
Breakdown Press is thrilled to release What Awaits Them, the long-awaited and complete collection of Liam Cobb’s short-form comics.
Bringing together the previous Breakdown Press releases “The Inspector” and “The Fever Closing”, this new anthology includes strips and stories from every part of Cobb’s career. Readers will be transported to exotic luxury islands, the darkest rainforests, snow-swept frontiers and a bizarrely run Michelin-starred restaurant, and will discover the unique mix of lush extravagance and bleak realities that his comics bring to the form.
Cobb’s comics reflect the relative loneliness of contemporary life with gleaming, monolithic architecture. Metaphysical love blossoms in the dank humidity of the jungle in a whirlwind of melan- choly and mundanity. His clean, unmistakable lines razor the page through rich colour, transporting the reader to a clinical oasis, a gleaming utopia laced with irony and sweat.
With these stories, Cobb invites you to submerge yourselves in his uncanny waters and discover, once and for all, What Awaits Them…
“Liam’s name crops up often as a measure of a great work with an instant narrative that makes you stop and stare at an image for far too long.”
Lucy Bourton – It’s Nice That
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AFTER THE METEORITE / RIBBITING CONVERSATION PRINTS by Liam Cobb
280 x 400 mm — Riso Printed — Munken Lynx 240gsm
Riso printed in London on Munken Lynx 240gsm paper by those printy wizards at PageMasters
£25
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To coincide with the release of What Awaits Them, Breakdown Press are giving you the opportunity to coat your wall in Cobb.
Frog, shroom or both?
You decide.
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PRE-WAR MANGA – EASY GOING DADDY by ASŌ YUTAKA/HINEKO, THEIR ONLY CHILD BY NAGASAKI BATTEN
A5 — 60 pages — Riso printed — Saddle Stitch Softcover — Evercopy 80gsm with Colorplan 175gsm Cover
£15
Breakdown Press embark on a series of pamphlets focussed on manga from the pre-war period. Scholar Eike Exner explores the beginnings of Japanese comics with two of the first “audiovisual” comic strips from 1920s, edited and retranslated for the first time since 1924.
Presented in this volume are Easygoing Daddy by Asō Yutaka and Hineko, Their Only Child by Nagasaki Batten and a short, contextual essay by Eike Exner.
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COME SEE OUR LOVELY BOOKS
As we approach Autumn you’ve got a bunch of opportunities to come and see our books and pieces in the flesh –
We will be attending PageMasters Summer Zine Fair at South London Gallery on 2nd and 3rd of September. Breakdown associates Decadence, Bronze Age Editions and Another Subculture will be in attendance, amongst many others. We’ll be debuting three new books, so see you there!
A vintage Breakdown Press selection of Antoine Cosse, Richard Short and Joe Kessler descend upon Bordeaux for the annual Festival Gribouillis on September 13th!
