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, 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 Keren Katz's website, https://kerenkatz.carbonmade.com/.


Quotes from Maira Kalman and Richard McGuire - and others to come!

About the Author

Keren Katz is an Israeli-born cartoonist, writer, and illustrator. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts’s MFA Illustration Program, she is also “the illustrating half of The Katz Sisters duo. She is also the half that is not fictitious.” Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Einayim Magazine for Children, Achbar Ha-Ir, Ha-Af, Ha-Pinkas, Carrier Pigeon, Linen Ovens Comics Poetry Anthology, Maayan Poetry Magazine, and by Locust Moon Comics and Seven Stories Press.

Reviews

"Katz's work, like that of Matthew Barney or Mika Rottenberg, has its own logic. Her storytelling voice seems to link the divine nonsense of authors like Daniel Pinkwater, William Steig, or Edward Gorey with surrealist writers like Leonora Carrington. Her comics are Truly Weird, the highest compliment I can give. With drawings executed in confident colored pencil, her figures stretch, bend, and topple in a manner reminiscent of contemporary choreography." - Artsy"The book is so rich in strange images that attempting to square them all with specific symbolic meaning seems fraught and silly, and perhaps would lead to misguided conclusions: The talk of a growing pencil, for instance, which comes up a few times, could refer to an erection as an instrument of will and agency, but suggests an argument that true agency for a woman comes not through her sexuality but through acts of writing or drawing. How can a young woman argue with the swelling cock of an older man positioned in power, if not through telling her story?" - The Comics Journal"The Academic Hour is a slew of contradictions wrapped up together; it is as delicate as it is intense, as heartbroken as it is joyous. The Academic Hour is one of the most complex, beautiful, and puzzling comics I've read in years. It's a must read, and likely one of the strongest comics published so far in 2017." - Sequential State"It's safe to say that children in grade school can't illustrate images this impressive, but still, these Keren Katz renderings have a certain unrefined quality to them that's evocative of kids' drawings. This is, of course, a conscious design choice as Katz's style stands out immensely amidst a sea of computer-generated artistry. Her penchant for leaving things not perfectly colored, her exaggerated human proportions and the overall whimsy of the scenes she depicts are things that make her work endlessly interesting to examine." - Trendhunter