National Print Campaign:
Advance copies to the following publications: the New York Times,
the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice, the Atlantic Monthly,
Portland Monthly, the Portland Mercury, the Stranger, Print, the
Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Midwest Book Review,
the LA Times, the LA Review of Books and many others.
Advance copies to trades Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library
Journal.
Online Media Campaign:
Advance copies, interview and review pitches to: NPR.org, the
Huffington Post, Comics Beat, the Comics Reporter, the Comics
Journal, Comic Book Resources, Flavorwire, Bookslut, Pop Matters,
Inkstuds, Under the Radar, Paste Magazine, the Onion A.V. Club,
Pitchfork and Slate among others.
Promotion through the Secret Acres Scuttlebutt blog, Secret Acres
Facebook, Twitter and tumblr and through the artist's website,
http://www.iknowashortcut.com/.
Quotes from Tom Hart, Mark Newgarden, Matt Madden - and others to
come!
Brendan Leach is an Ignatz and Xeric Award winning Cartoonist and Illustrator. His comics have been published by Secret Acres, Top Shelf Comics, and Retrofit Comics. Brendan's illustration work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and 3x3 Magazine, and his comics have been included in many collections and anthologies, including Best American Comics 2011. He used to drive a Zamboni in New Jersey, now he draws pictures in Brooklyn, NY.
"Gilded age dinosaur hunters might sound like one of DC's old Silver Age larks, but Leach approaches it with a literary sensibility, pinpointing the jealousy, shame and fear that motivates and paralyzes the younger brother. If pterodactyls really did plague the gilded age, this is the story Stephen Crane would've written about the intermittently brave men who undertook the fight. Leach's scratchy, cartoony artwork probably would have been sneered at back then, but it's a strikingly distinctive style for a newcomer." - Paste Magazine"It's wonderful to imagine that New York at the turn of the 20th century may still be living under the threat of prehistoric pterodactyls. Brendan Leach's story starts out with that great concept. In 1905, it seems that only two or three pterodactyls remain, most recently thanks to Eamon Sullivan, a true-hearted hero of the city. Maybe more proud-hearted than true, Eamon is the hero of New York City as he carries on the family business and kills every pterodactyl that he can. And he's going to kill them all before his younger brother Declan has a chance to even find out if he could be half the civic hero that Eamon is... ...So instead of telling a story about something fantastic and magical like dinosaurs, Leach builds a very personal story about all of our doubts of what we're going to be when we grow up." - Newsarama"Leach, who I know almost nothing about other than that he's the guy who drew a comic about a pterodactyl that some people once told me was worth a look, draws this comic like it's a low-budget punk rock sci-fi action sequence with a beginning, middle, and end. It's raw-looking and energetic, and relatively thin on subtext, but the plot whizzes along and it's basically a neo-punk-noir mind-swap crime movie on paper. It's genre trash as end effect, and it doesn't get in its own way." - CBR"This is a really gorgeous and unique story... ...It feels like the perfect means of delivery for a story so rooted in history, antique ideals and sensationalism." - Daily Crosshatch"Despite the pleasing visuals, the story is the greatest strength of the work. The setting, the characters, and the narrative drive are all top notch. The story's world has existed for years, but it is this particular moment of internal and external crisis that creates the reason for the story. The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City is a literary story told using the comics medium. There's plenty of action driving the story along, but its conclusion is as complex as the mixed emotions of its heroic watchman." - Midnight Fiction
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