Overview

Monsters, by Gabby Schulz (writing as Ken Dahl), returns to print in a larger format with a new, deluxe, stitched binding. Between printings, collector demand for this book has driven the price of previous editions to ten and twenty times its cover price. For its original publication, Monsters was counted on dozens of lists of the best comics of the year, including those from the Village Voice, Library Journal, the Comics Journal and Comic Book Resources. It has garnered a Best American Comics selection, two Small Press Expo Ignatz Awards and an Eisner Award nomination. Flavorwire recently included Monsters on its list of the ten most ""disturbingly brilliant"" graphic novels of all time. Since Monsters, Gabby Schulz has produced the limited edition comic, weather, and a host of online comics work. His web comic, SEXISM, was a viral sensation, written up everywhere from the Stranger to Scientific American. Additionally, his work has appeared on narrative.ly and BuzzFeed and in Arthur Magazine. The new edition of Monsters will be released alongside Gabby Schulz's hotly anticipated Sick, which was nominated for the 2013 Small Press Expo Ignatz Award for Best Webcomic.

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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

Author Information

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 graphic novel, Sick, an Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Online Comic, collected in a full color hardcover edition from Secret Acres.

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