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Highlights
- "You are faced with the reality of quitting or doubling down.
- About the Author: Zak Sally is a cartoonist, printmaker, publisher, musician and educator.
- 60 Pages
- Comics + Graphic Novels, Literary
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About the Book
"You are faced with the reality of quitting or doubling down. Guess which one this is." - Zak Sally, RecidivistBook Synopsis
"You are faced with the reality of quitting or doubling down. Guess which one this is." - Zak Sally, Recidivist
A man searches for his lost teeth to complete his masterwork. Another embraces ghosts in an act of vengeance. Children escape from a ruined house to find a revelation. A wanderer leaves everything behind and discovers the infinite. Part resignation letter, part manifesto, the stories in Zak Sally's Recidivist IV comprise a medium-defying visual experience of the freedom in obscurity.
Review Quotes
"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... ...The results are in your hands. Everything is squared away." -- The Comics Journal
"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." -- CBR
"Revealing and witty, even when mired in darkness." -- Publishers Weekly
"Recidivist is reminiscent of work by underground cartoonist Chester Brown, with that nightmarish quality that's also extremely funny if it's viewed in a certain way..." -- Onion AV Club
"Zak Sally grabs you by the eyes and drags you headlong into a vision of earnest struggle and serial revelation." -- Jim Woodring
"There will always be some whose own version of life, whose own personalities, don't lend themselves to mainstream tastes. Here's where we find a man like Zak Sally." -- National Post
"Recidivist is dark, complex, fugue-like - unlike so many other books, it both demands and rewards rereading. This is an eloquent step forward for the graphic novel." -- Rain Taxi
About the Author
Zak Sally is a cartoonist, printmaker, publisher, musician and educator. He self-published his first comic zine on a photocopier at the age of thirteen. 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. 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. La Mano serves as a publisher for Sally's works as well as those of other comic artists including John Porcellino (From Lone Mountain) and William Schaff. Sally has designed and drawn record covers, posters, zines, illustrations, and comics on an international platform for over twenty years. He has also curated gallery exhibitions, served as the United States liaison to the PFC (an international experimental comics residency/think tank based in France), formed an experimental art school (Schoolhaus, with Dan Ibarra), and is one of the eight organizers, board members, and founders of AUTOPTIC, a bi-yearly festival of independent culture in Minneapolis. Sally has been teaching at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design since 2007. His current ongoing projects include the completion of Sammy the Mouse and a comics biography of author Philip K. Dick.