Artist the Portfolio Edition Tp (MR) — PREORDER

PREORDER: Releases Wednesday, November 18, 2026. Your copy ships release week.

Preorder price $27.99 (20% off the $34.99 cover price).

Floating World Comics

Breakdown Press are excited to bring Anna Haifisch’s The Artist back to print in a new omnibus edition, collecting both the original 2016 graphic novel and it’s 2019 follow-up, The Circle of Life, along with additional strips including the brand new Bird Opera. Now readers can experience the whole story in one hilarious and heart-wrenching volume, exposing the absurdity of the fine art world as experienced by a young artist. Anna Haifisch’s idiosyncratic, episodic comic chronicles the formative years of a young artist, satirising the exclusive, ephemeral and absurd world of fine art with all of its arcane protocols and quirks. Plagued by doubts and anxiety, the artist confronts constant setbacks and tantalizingly occasional glimpses of success. Based on Haifisch’s own experiences as an illustrator in both Germany and the USA, The Artist is a sharp and self-deprecating comedy that will resonate with anyone who has ever tried to make art. In The Artist, Haifisch has exposed the very nerves of what it means to be an artist in a world of ever shifting rules and complications, to hilarious and insightful ends.

Creative team: (W/A/CA) Anna Haifisch

How preorders work: every preorder is 20% off cover price. You are charged at checkout and your order ships the week of release in a rigid mailer. Cancel any time before release for a full refund. Order by September 28, 2026 (final order cutoff) and your copy is guaranteed.