{"id":5595,"date":"2020-02-24T03:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T03:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/?page_id=5595"},"modified":"2023-02-23T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T16:43:06","slug":"zak-sallly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/?page_id=5595","title":{"rendered":"Zak Sally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 760px; padding-left: 100px; padding-right: 100px;\"><a href=\"#Bio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4641 size-full\" title=\"Bio\" src=\"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gesamtkuntswerkers-Artist-Page-Sally-Bio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"39\" height=\"107\"><\/a><a href=\"#Reviews\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4642 size-full\" title=\"Reviews\" src=\"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gesamtkuntswerkers-Artist-Page-Sally-Reviews.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"107\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/collections\/vendors?q=Zak%20Sally&amp;contributorID=20981\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4643 size-full\" style=\"border-image: initial; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"Store\" src=\"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gesamtkuntswerkers-Artist-Page-Sally-Store.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"107\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/zaksally.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4644 size-full\" title=\"Website\" src=\"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gesamtkuntswerkers-Artist-Page-Sally-Website.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"107\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a name=\"Bio\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4646 size-full alignleft\" title=\"Zak Sally\" src=\"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"txtHeading\">BIO<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"txtParhead\">Zak Sally<\/span> is a cartoonist, printmaker, publisher, musician and educator. He is best known for his book, <em>Like a Dog<\/em> (Fantagraphics), and his two comics series, <em>Sammy the Mouse<\/em> and <em>Recidivist<\/em>, the third volume of which received two Eisner Award nominations. In addition to his comics work, he played bass in the minimal rock band, Low. He is a native of Duluth, Minnesota, and currently owns and operates his own press, La Mano 21, in Minneapolis. His current ongoing projects include the completion of <em>Sammy the Mouse<\/em> and a comics biography of author Philip K. Dick.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Reviews\"><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"txtHeading\">IN PRAISE OF ZAK SALLY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txtParhead\">Revealing<\/span> and witty, even when mired in darkness.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txtReview\">&#8211; Publishers Weekly<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recidivist is reminiscent of work by underground cartoonist Chester Brown, with that nightmarish quality that&#8217;s also extremely funny if it&#8217;s viewed in a certain way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txtReview\">&#8211; A.V. Club<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zak Sally grabs you by the eyes and drags you headlong into a vision of earnest struggle and serial revelation.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txtReview\">&#8211; Jim Woodring<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There will always be some whose own version of life, whose own personalities, don\u2019t lend themselves to mainstream tastes. Here\u2019s where we find a man like Zak Sally.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txtReview\">&#8211; National Post<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display:none;\" class=\"collapse-text\" id=\"te1771142479\" href=\"javascript:expand('#te1771142479')\"><span class=\"txtHeading\">MORE PRAISE FOR ZAK SALLY<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"te_div\" id=\"te1771142479\"><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\">expander_hide('#te1771142479');<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Smart and elegant and breathtaking, a comic that forces you to engage with it but rewards you with its tightrope act as the reading experience and the content cohere into a breathtaking whole.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txtReview\">&#8211; CBR<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He has discovered the pleasures of irrelevance at last; you are free to do whatever you want. To slip behind people and catch them off guard\u2026 \u2026The results are in your hands. Everything is squared away.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txtReview\">&#8211; The Comics Journal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Recidivist<\/em> is dark, complex, fugue-like&#8211; unlike so many other books, it both demands and rewards rereading. This is an eloquent step forward for the graphic novel.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txtReview\">&#8211; Rain Taxi<\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIO Zak Sally is a cartoonist, printmaker, publisher, musician and educator. He is best known for his book, Like a Dog (Fantagraphics), and his two comics series, Sammy the Mouse and Recidivist, the third volume of which received two Eisner Award nominations. 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