Promotional Information

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.


E-book available now on Sequential.com.


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 Jeffrey Brown (Darth Vader and Son, Clumsy) and others.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Dahl's excellent cartooning and humor make this book required reading for anyone who has had sex, is going to have sex, or wants to have sex." - Jeffrey Brown, author of Vader and Son"Monsters is possibly the funniest, most heartbreakingly honest herpes memoir ever committed to print. Dahl's penwork is lyrical, at once detailed and light, never weighing down the humor--no easy feat. He's brutally (and graphically) honest about the affliction without working the gross-out factor too much." - Print"Ken Dahl confronts his herpes affliction through comically grotesque drawings and tongue-tied dialogue with prospective dates in Monsters (Secret Acres, 208 pp., $18). The virus itself grows into a large blob that mutters, "I'm just another lifeform trying to survive in this weird, fucked-up world.'" - The Village Voice"The information Dahl parcels out as he spills his misery--almost entirely psychological and unnecessary, though he spun it out for five years--is sound, and his self-flaying humor throughout is marvellously ludicrous." - Booklist"This is definitely the most entertaining book you'll ever read about herpes... ...Expressive and often explosive black-and-white art creates well-defined characters and brings Ken's interior world to life (the monstrous talking sores that follow Ken around are particularly effective as his inner voice of doom and misery)." - Library Journal"In the end it is the end that sews up Monsters as a real aesthetic piece of work. There's a decisive, encouraging conclusion that honors narrative convention and common sense. This is followed by two clinching toppers, an epilogue in which medical science has its final say, and another where Dahl demonstrates a humorous, hard-won, more substantive understanding of the world, micro and macro, with a crowning, profoundly human gesture." - The Comics Journal