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This comes from the former personal collection of Peter Bagge.. editor at Fantagraphics Books and Weirdo Magazine, also the creator of “Hate” and “Neat Stuff”. A few years back I obtained a large lot of books that were formerly his. A bunch of the books from this lot were clearly artist submissions while Mr. Bagge was running things at Weirdo and then FB. There were a couple short boxes of rare and more common readers, copies of things he contributed to and/or edited. Some came with multiple copies, others came with unique little notes and original artist sketches clearly indicating them as submissions. I'm assuming some were also just personal interest readers, and/or editor copies he held onto.

Like A Dog by Zak Sally (2009 Fantagraphics Books)

7.1 x 0.8 x 10.3 inches. 128 pages. Hardcover. 

Zak Sally is best known for his career as a musician in the band Low. He also is an acclaimed cartoonist. Like a Dog collects the very best of Sally's acclaimed short comics from the past 15 years for publications like Mome, Dirty Stories, The Recidivist and more. Stories like "Don't Move," "The War Back Home," "Two Idiot Brothers," and "Killing Screws" share little in common on the surface but are united by Sally's forbidding style. Nonfiction comics include "At the Scaffold," about the trial of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and "The Man Who Killed Wally Wood," a story about Sally's brush with a former publisher of the legendary comic artist (who, contrary to the title of this strip, took his own life). Like a Dog will also include extensive "liner notes" by the artist, previously unpublished material, and other surprises.

Alternative Description

One man's heartfelt and irreverent record of his time on this rock, Zak Sally's unflinchingly veracious book, Like a Dog, is both direct and oblique, which we find rather miraculous considering the messy and murky waters of human experience it manages to navigate. Like a Dog is among the few comic book testimonials burdened by the yen to understand and articulate the mundane and the magnificent. Don't be surprised if you find yourself laughing and crying as you claw your way through each hard fought page!

Of all of Sally's creative pursuits (including a career in music spanning 15+ years), Like a Dog is the one he's been working a lifetime toward. This hardcover book collects the best of his acclaimed short stories from the past 15 years, created in between band tours and recording sessions, published in his Eisner-nominated self-published series Recidivist (the first 2 issues of which are reprinted here in their entirety) and in publications like Mome, The Drama, Your Flesh, Dirty Stories, and more.

Like a Dog spotlights Sally's uncanny ability to create emotional havoc out of claustrophobic images, situations and dialogue. Stories like "Don't Move," "The War Back Home," and "Two Idiot Brothers" share little in common on the surface but are united by Sally's forbidding style, creating a sense of dread that permeates almost every page.

Sally also turns his eye towards nonfiction in Like a Dog, including "At the Scaffold," the story of the imprisonment and trial of Fyodor Dostoyevsky for allegedly subversive behavior, and "The Man Who Killed Wally Wood," a story about Sally's brush with a former publisher of the legendary comic artist (who, contrary to the title of this strip, took his own life after a long battle with alcoholism). It also includes two collaborations: "Dread," written by NEA Fellowship recipient, Edgar Award finalist, and O. Henry Award winning author Brian Evenson (Altmann's Tongue); and River Deep, Mountain High, co-created with fellow cartoonist Chris Cilla.

Like a Dog also includes extensive "liner notes" by the artist, previously unpublished material, an introduction by John Porcellino (King Cat), and other surprises.