{"id":5041,"date":"2018-09-12T14:37:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2018-10-24T22:24:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T22:24:39","slug":"movie-the-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/?p=5041","title":{"rendered":"The Hurricane Heist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WE DARE<\/span> to shake our fists at you, Florence! If you were wondering, the Small Press Expo 2018<\/a> is still on, hurricane or no. Comics kids don’t scare. Pardon our rustiness because it’s been a long, hot, boring summer. So we say goodbye to summer the usual way with a trip to SPX and a pair of new books – and what a pair we have. These books took their sweet time (not\u00a0<\/span>Entropy<\/em><\/a>-level time, but still)<\/span> making it to us and, at long last, to SPX and to you.<\/p>\n

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You might be familiar with the first of our debut books,\u00a0Flocks<\/em><\/a> by L. Nichols<\/a>. Long ago,\u00a0Flocks<\/em> was serialized, first by the estimable Retrofit<\/a>, and later by L.’s own Grindstone<\/a> outfit. Somewhere along the line, the\u00a0Flocks<\/em> stopped coming. We blame Kevin Czap<\/a>, the Comics Mom, for talking L. into publishing Ley Lines<\/em><\/a>. Much as we love Ley Lines<\/em>, we wanted the end of L.’s tale of being assigned female and growing up in rural Louisiana with conservative Christians. Now, we can all read the whole thing. You get to call first if you make it to SPX, and, if you fall in line early, you can check out L. on the Trans Memoir<\/a> panel, along with Maia Kobabe<\/a>, Gabe Howell<\/a>, Julia Kaye<\/a> and Carta Monir<\/a>, no less. We loved last year’s panel<\/a>, moderated by L. and featuring Carta and Kevin. Incest much?<\/p>\n

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We said two big debuts and the second marks the return of Robert Sergel<\/a>, with his first graphic novel,\u00a0Bald Knobber<\/em><\/a>. Rob himself put together a serialized\u00a0Bald Knobber<\/em> in mini-minis. We gave\u00a0Bald Knobber<\/em> the hard cover treatment for the whole shebang. Like\u00a0Flocks<\/em>, this one tells a story of adolescence, but in an evil twin kind of way. A middle school boy and his cat, inspired by a book about the real Bald Knobbers, vigilantes of the Reconstruction Era, decide to seek a little justice of their own. We love this comic because it’s Rob, so it’s amazing. We also love it because we’re bibliophiles, and getting lost in a book about a kid getting lost in a book because the world stinks is a meta-cozy thing for us. If you’ve ever fallen in love with a book, we promise you will fall in love with\u00a0Bald Knobber<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Lest you feel left out of the fun this weekend, you can order both books in our Emporium<\/a> right now and we will send them to you. If you’re in New York on the 23rd of September, you can catch L. reading and chatting with Kevin Czap, AGAIN, at the amazing BGSQD<\/a>. That’s the acronym for the Bureau of General Sevices Queer Division in Manhattan’s LGBT Center. If you’ve never been, you have to go and you have to go the bathrooms on the second floor to check out the Keith Haring murals. What did you expect to find in there? Perv. If you happen to be in L.’s hometown Hudson Valley on the 28th, you can catch L. (and probably Kevin, at this point) at Beacon’s Binnacle Books<\/a>. You know, that place in all the Gabrielle Bell<\/a> comics. If you find yourself in our beloved Windy City this weekend, you must get yourself to Western Exhibitions<\/a> for our hero, Edie Fake<\/a>, and his latest gallery show,\u00a0Gut Rehab<\/em>. Prepare to be overwhelmed by beauty. If you’re on the fence about getting to SPX, may we offer you one Very Special Guest? Last year’s Ignatz nominee for Outstanding Graphic Novel, Keren Katz<\/a>, returns to the scene of the crime (since she was robbed of her Ignatz by that “Emil Ferris<\/a>” person).<\/p>\n

We gotta get packing. We promise to return with our SPX rundown and reminders of all of the above. It’s a lot to remember.<\/p>\n

Your Pal,<\/p>\n

Leon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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