This week’s Small Press Spotlight is popping its consideration to British micro-publisher Breakdown Press. The firm has introduced two new collections of avant-garde work – Jonathan Chandler‘s John’s Worth, and Yokoyama Yuichi‘s Baby Boom to cap 2022. Both books are up for pre-order and are anticipated to ship after November 20, 2022.
Chandler’s John’s Worth was initially revealed throughout 4 points by Breakdown Press. Meanwhile, Yuichi’s Baby Boom is a set of 39 quick various manga works that haven’t beforehand seen launch within the English language – and can come full with an interview with the creator, a Ryan Holmberg essay, and a canopy designed by Jean-Philippe Bretin.
It is certainly price leaping on the Breakdown Press 2022 pre-order prepare if these tickle your fancy as books are inclined to exit of print – Yuichi’s final e-book – Outdoors – being one instance.
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John’s Worth, Jonathan Chandler
£19.99, 260 pages, Softcover
ISBN 978-1-9110811-6-6
Synopsis:
“From the thoughts of Jonathan Chandler, Britain’s grasp of psychological horror, comes John’s Worth, the whole assortment of his psycho-sexual, bio-horror noir.
“The titular John returns to civilian life after an extended tour in uniform combating techno-terrorists in a overseas land nobody again house has heard of, a lot much less cares about. He finds his homeland twisted past recognition: a destitute nation, filthy with crime, playing, prostitution and mortgage sharks. Into this pitiable and corrupt land, a new narcotic has arrived; a weird drug that takes the type of a hideous dwelling organism.
“Set in a hallucinatory desert-like landscape, this unsettling tale of mutation and deceit is a page-turning, cinematic experience, injected into your brain via Chandler’s jagged lines and punchy dialogue.”
Baby Boom, Yokoyama Yuichi
£26.99, 184 pages, Softcover
ISBN 978-1-9110811-9-7
“Baby Boom is the most recent in Breakdown Press’s line of English language editions of labor by influential Japanese artist Yokoyama Yuichi.
“Yokoyama’s comics are solely distinctive: free from the normal modes of narrative, his work explores movement, sound and construction, producing hanging, fantastically graphic tales that propel the reader right into a world of onomatopoeia, pace, and visible noise. Collecting 39 quick items, every drawn with vivid markers, Baby Boom makes use of polychromy in symbolic and rhythmic methods to create a musical, visually extraordinary expertise.
“With 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.”
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