Upwards Incursion

Padraig Campbell’s Upwards Incursion weaves together a haunting examination of agency and narrative.

“A unique collection of both detailed and mysterious comics that get under skin and stay with you.” 

— Liam Cobb, author of What Awaits Them

“Upwards Incursion finds the horrors hidden in the formal layers of cartooning itself. Each story in this collection is a freefall through stranger and stranger realities until we arrive at the worst of them all, our own.” 

— Conor Stechschulte, author of Ultrasound

“Upwards Incursion is an epic nightmare in the sincerest sense, one that imprisons you in a world of logical absurdity, where things feel fleeting and eternal, apathetic and vengeful, attractive and grotesque. Such horror told through invitingly supple and beautiful inks feels vulgar, like a succulent toxic fruit; Campbell has the kind of creative mind that I both deeply fear and deeply envy.”

— Jenna Cha, co-author of Black Stars Above & The Sickness

“A dark, delicate and disturbing work, an exploration of  the psychology of imagery with silence and mystery. A wonderfully distorted book by Padraig Campbell.”

— J. Webster Sharp, author of The Scrapbook of Life and Death