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, Bitch, 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 Gabby Schulz's comics
website, http://www.gabbysplayhouse.com/.
Quotes from Dylan Horrocks, author of Hicksville - and others to
come!
Gabby Schulz -- who sometimes goes by the name Ken Dahl -- was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i, and has spent most of his adult life in transit about the North American continent. His graphic novel, Monsters, won two Ignatz Awards, was nominated for an Eisner Award, and was included in the 2012 Best American Comics Anthology. He other works include a short story collection, Welcome to the Dahl House, and the web comic, Sick, an Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Online Comic, soon to be collected in a full color hardcover edition from Secret Acres. Gabby currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.
THE BEST COMICS OF 2016"Gabby Schulz's unfairly overlooked and
singularly upsetting Sick (Secret Acres) deserves mention, a
painful and highly intimate look at depression from the inside
out." - A.V. ClubBEST GRAPHIC NOVELS OF FALL 2016
"Schulz's art is as good as any independent cartoonist working
today--grim and graphic, but also frank and penetrating. With
plenty of anatomical details and ailments shown and described, Sick
isn't for the easily grossed-out or offended. But those looking for
a vital, independent voice to follow in the footsteps of Robert
Crumb and others should give it a try--some of Schulz's images and
ideas will linger, like a stubborn infection, long after the book's
cover has been closed." - Foreword Reviews"Schulz uses the book to
explore topics as broad as class inequity in the United States and
as specific and personal as his own psyche. You may have seen Sick
online when it was first serialized a couple of years ago, but in
this new edition, Schulz seems to have repainted the artwork to
give it a more rich and visceral feel. He is probably the most
inventive cartoonist working in comics that many readers still have
never heard of, and this is his most masterful piece of cartooning
to date. Gabby Schulz's unfairly overlooked and singularly
upsetting Sick (Secret Acres) deserves mention, a painful and
highly intimate look at depression from the inside out." -
mental_floss"Schulz captures the experience of sickness with
uncomfortable accuracy: the woozy slipping in and out of
consciousness, the sense of health and wellness becoming but a
distant memory-and of pain and illness defining all of one's
existence. Sick joins other books in the growing genre of graphic
memoirs dealing with health issues, among them Ellen Forney's
Marbles, John Porcellino's The Hospital Suite, and Jennifer Haydn's
The Story of My Tits. While those books offer stories of people who
navigated through their physical and mental problems to the point
of reaching new possibilities for their lives, in Sick, Schulz's
illness is the avenue that leads him to simply confirm all of his
worst fears about himself and the world surrounding him: 'The
sickness had become me.' This is uncompromising work by a brave and
powerful artist." - The Comics Journal
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