Here's a chance to catch up with Leomi (aka Leon) Sadler and take a deep dive into what they've been up to lately, in this full colour collection just released by the UK's Breakdown Press, who have this to say about it:

“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.

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

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

16 pages of riotous, full color comics, printed on magazine-size, white newsprint, from Leomi Sadler.

BACK IN STOCK!

Here's an anthology to boost your start to 2025!  Alive Outside takes the baton from Kramers Ergot, Mould Map and Freak Buck and heads out into the unknown armed only with a  free-for-all editorial approach and an anything-goes æsthetic.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Due to encountering a bit of bad luck en route, most of our copies were damaged.  We are currently awaiting replacements.  Thus, this listing is, effectively, a pre-order offer and orders will not ship until late-January.  As an apology for this delay – or, to look at it another way, to reward customers for their patience – we are offering a special discount from now until the time we actually receive the replacements, at which time the price will revert to retail.

Also note:  Alive Outside has been produced in an edition of 900 copies.

"ALIVE OUTSIDE: An anthology to obliterate the impending monoculture! A convergence of new voices joining verifiable legends, all tearing at the walls of expectation. Cultural innovation as an impulse. Algorithmically-born tastemaking be damned! This is elemental vitality pressed into a wood pulp manifesto for the messy comedy of creation ~"

ALIVE OUTSIDE collects previously unpublished work from an international cast of artists, including:

Aapo Rapi, Aaron Rossner, Andy Cahill, Angela Fanche, Becchi Ayumi, Bridget Trout, Christian Schumann, Clayton Schiff, Dongery, Doug Allen, Dylan Jones, Eden Veaudry, J Bradley Johnson, Jordan Rae Herron, Joe Grillo, Joey Haley, Julie Doucet, Julien Ceccaldi, Kari Cholnoky, Keith Jones, Leomi Sadler, Lilli Carre, Lukas Weidinger, Marc Bell, Mark Connery, Matt Lock, Poncili Creation, Roman Muradov, Ron Rege Jr., Shoboshobo, Steven M. Johnson, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Theo Ellsworth, Trenton Doyle Hancock

Edited by Cullen Beckhorn and Marc Bell.

248 pages, multiple inset booklets, mixed-process 6-color offset, and extraneous Risograph materials.