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Tummy Bugs

by Leomi Sadler

190 x 260mm -- 96 pages -- offset printed -- paperback -- ISBN 978-1-9110811-2-8

“You never know what you’re gonna step in next.”

The stories inside Tummy Bugs are by turn absurd, surreal and funny. Short luridly coloured vignettes transport the reader into a deeply individual landscape, populated by strange creatures, where the line between fantasy, reality and science fiction is constantly shifting.

Leomi Sadler has been a cult figure in the alternative comics scene for over a decade, running the critically acclaimed publisher Famicon Express. Sadler’s commercial illustration work has seen them collaborate with Givenchy, Nike and Vice Magazine as their artistic tendrils continue to extend beyond comics and into the worlds of fashion and contemporary art.

Sadler’s comics work has previously only seen the light of day in glimpses. Small print runs of self-published zines and in prestigious anthologies like Kramer’s Ergot or Lagon Revue. With Tummy Bugs, Breakdown Press aims to bring Sadler’s unique vision to its widest audience yet.

Tummy Bugs was printed by offset lithography at Printon Trükikoda AS in Estonia.

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Free Fall

by Alexis Beauclair

240 x 300 mm -- 128 pages -- offset printed -- paperback -- ISBN 978-1-9110811-3-5

Free Fall collects nine stories by Alexis Beauclair, originally published in various anthologies over the last decade. Beauclair’s comics are wordless thrill-rides where form and landscape shift perception from image to image. The reader is propelled from one beautiful image to the next at breakneck speed, a rollercoaster ride across the landscape of one of the most singular and important comics artists working today, at the forefront of the French Abstract Formalist Comic Movement.

Free Fall was printed by offset lithography at Printon Trükikoda AS in Estonia.

Haway Man, Klaus!

by Richard Short

175 x 155 mm -- 232 pages -- offset printed -- paperback -- ISBN 978-1-9110811-1-1

Haway Man, Klaus! is the first full-length collection of comic strips charting the un-adventures of Klaus, Richard Short’s pensive, anthropomorphic cat.

Reinvigorating the classic comic strip, Short salutes Charles Schulz's Peanuts, Tove Jansson's Moomins and Japanese cartooning masters, before veering quickly into an original, strange and utterly unique world of screwball comedy and poetic rumination.

Short’s 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.

“[Short] creates beautiful, funny and thoughtful comics … Short's comics start from a Charles Schulz template but grow increasingly complex, philosophical and beautiful … endlessly entertaining, plumbing the character's emotional depths and providing the fodder for some remarkable punchlines … this is really excellent work and is highly recommended for readers who like their humour mixed with poetry.” Rob Clough, High Low Comics

Haway Man, Klaus! was printed by offset lithography at Printon Trükikoda AS in Estonia.