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by Liam Cobb

135 x 185mm -- 80 pages -- Risograph printed -- perfect bound

The follow up to Liam Cobb's 2016 ELCAF Audience award winning Shampoo, Conditioner is a collection of short pieces exploring surreal intersections of architecture and the wild.

Conditioner was printed by Risograph at Victory Press in London.

There is a graphic novel's worth of panel to panel exposition in this slim risograph comic.  Cobb's most interesting work yet.  

170 x 243mm -- 24 pages -- Risograph printed -- saddle stitched

London-based comics maker, Liam Cobb turned in his longest work to date here, and, while we've been selling it in the shop since its release, we forgot to list list it here on the site – sorry!  In the 120 duotone pages of The Prince, Cobb takes the classic fairy tale of "The Frog Prince," sets it in a modern day metropolis, and turns it on its head, transforming it into a morality play streaked with vengeance.   Lots of nice clean line artwork undercuts plenty of classic fairy tale tropes and there are reversals galore – along with some eerire surreal moments.  

BACK IN STOCK!

Here's what Breakdown Press has to say:

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 melancholy 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...

Printed by 12.Matbaa in Turkey.

ONE COPY