Breakdown Press New Releases 2026: Limbo, Gentrivacation, and More
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Breakdown Press new releases are always worth paying attention to, and this latest wave from the London-based publisher is no exception. Four new titles are arriving from some of the most distinctive voices in contemporary comics. They're exactly the kind of books that remind you why independent publishing matters.
Breakdown Press has built its reputation by championing bold, uncompromising comics art, from cutting-edge new cartoonists to rediscovered classics. These Breakdown Press new releases are no different: bold in vision, varied in voice, and impossible to ignore.
Limbo by Ferry Gouw
150 × 210mm 68 pages softcover ISBN 978-1-911081-37-1
"Super weird like a crazy fever dream. I liked it and it stuck with me." - Zadie Smith
In an unnamed country, air heavy with the heat of imminent uprising, the decision to go running alone after dark sets in motion a chain of chances and choices that change everybody they touch. Cai, sculptor at an arts residency in an upscale resort, and his colleague Lisa, a local working as his aide, are drawn into a complex series of events in which myth rises in the shadow of politics and the bright lights of festive fireworks.
Breakdown Press are excited to publish Ferry Gouw's new comic Limbo, an exciting and compelling rumination on belonging, the hidden truth of folklore, and the insidious coiling of colonialism. Drawn in luminous, glowing colour, Limbo is a comic that demands to be read, giving light to stories that remain unseen.
Gentrivacation by Apolo Cacho
157 × 210mm 36 pages paperback ISBN 978-1-911081-31-9
Breakdown Press are excited to present a new comic by Mexican artist Apolo Cacho — an explosive new work for our continuing end times.
A group of friends, armoured by youth but numbed by the overload of the modern world, embark on a series of journeys, both outside and inside. From a depressed but hospitable dragon, to cities bustling with unearthly life, through ecological collapse and rebirth, through the eruptions of new religions and old devils, this restless, unsettling comic brims with startling and unforgettable imagery. The electric sizzle of today rises with the heat haze of the past. The landscape rises up to swallow ruins, while the city looks on. The sun climbs higher in an unforgiving sky.
Apolo Cacho's searing art and vibrant, energetic line make Gentrivacation one of the essential comics of 2025. A timely exploration of the tension between the past and the present, technology and nature, the body and the spirit. Gentrivacation is a virtuosic fable for tomorrow, and a wild ride that will embed itself into the reader's imagination — and a highlight among this wave of Breakdown Press new releases.
Bigfoot Business Shoe by Josephine M.K Edwards
140 x 200mm 48 pages paperback ISBN: 978-1-911081-34-0
Breakdown Press is thrilled to present Bigfoot Business Shoe, a vibrant new comic by Josephine M. K. Edwards, making her return to Breakdown after the sell-out success of The Will o' the Wisp.
The first day at work is a very delicate time. Thoughts intrude between the clicking of your heels, new faces leer at you, unfamiliar corridors stretch out to unimagined places, terrible rituals. You don't feel like you belong here; something inside you is wrong. People can see the shadows beyond the whites of your eyes. And there's always what might be out in the woods behind the office, lurking beneath the boughs. Is it fear or is it freedom?
An extraordinary, luxuriant new comic, gleeful with violence, drenched in justified spite. Edwards' beguiling art and searing energy make Bigfoot Business Shoe one of the truly essential comics of 2025. A timely exploration of the quiet tortures of offices, the terrors of fitting in, and the radical freedoms in rejecting it all.
Buy Bigfoot Business Shoe here.
Gardens of Glass by Lando
190 x 265mm 144 pages offset printed softcover ISBN 978-0-9574381-6-3
Gardens of Glass is a retrospective collection of comics by Lando, 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 Stathis Tsemberlidis.
Blending Ballardian contemplation of the near future with the aesthetics of early European sci-fi comics, Lando's incredibly meticulous, impossibly fine pen line describes the deserted world that follows the Anthropocene epoch, where warfare, class division and ecological collapse dominate the landscape.
Gardens of Glass contains the stories "Olympic Games", "Last Drink", "H.A.A.R.P.", "Pyramid Scheme", "Flood Tablet" and "The Marble Man".
Published in collaboration with Gosh! Comics to celebrate their 40th anniversary.
All Breakdown Press new releases are available direct from the publisher and all good book and comic shops.
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