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