UPWARDS EXCURSION SC

Whilst hiking through the woods alone, you take a moment to rest beneath a tree to escape the blazing heat. Soon you find yourself drifting off to sleep, but you're not losing consciousness, you're sliding deeper into it. 

You are about to experience "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

Genre: Comic Collection

ISBN: 978-1-949065-39-8

Page Count: 160 | Full-color

Release Date: April 28 2026

**Cover Art by Padraig Campbell

**Cover Design by Padraig Campbell & Sally Franckowiak