November 24, 2018
Secret Acres is a micro publisher and small distributor. Over the years, they have published three CCS alum: Samuel Gaskin ’07, Joseph Lambert ’08, and Sean Ford ’08. If you need a fix of Secret Acres books, The Schulz library can help you out.
Fatal Faux-Pas by Samuel Gaskin: Collection of gags and stories riffing on pop culture
I Will Bite You! by Joseph Lambert: Collection of lively stories
Only Skin by Sean Ford: Grim exploration of the tragic landscape of modern rural America
Page from Curio Cabinet by John Brodowski
Curio Cabinet by John Brodowski: Collection of wordless comics set in a mysterious, treacherous wood at night
Capacity by Theo Ellsworth: Visualizing a mind turned inside out
Wormdye by Eamon Espey: Collection of interwoven tales about the anxiety of modern life
Spread from Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake
Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake: Fake’s debut graphic novel, following a creature willing to sacrifice anything for love and self-knowledge into a violent and unexpected path
PS Comics by Minty Lewis: Collection of stories where large pieces of fruit and talking animals struggle with the general problems of human life
Monsters by Ken Dahl (aka, Gabby Schulz): Part fiction, part fact, this mature-readers-only tale explores the physical and emotional traumas of an STD.
Page from Get Over It by Corrine Mucha
Get Over It by Corinne Mucha: An exploration of the strange behaviors of a broken heart
The Understanding Monster, Book One, by Theo Ellsworth: An explosion of color depicting his personal experience
Palefire by M. K. Reed and Farel Dalrymple: A firebug hated by everyone except a young woman who is no longer a girl but not yet an adult.
Page from Palefire by M. K. Reed and Farel Dalrymple
Space, an Eschew Collection by Robert Segel: Collection of the first three issues, a look at life’s little moments when usually no one is looking
Sick by Gabby Schulz: A look into the glaring, sweaty eyes of the national healthcare system
Post by Angela Boyle ′16.
Tags: Capacity, Cartoon Studies, Corinne Mucha, Curio Cabinet, Eamon Espey, Edie Fake, Farel Dalrymple, Fatal Faux-Pas, Gabby Schulz, Gaylord Pheonix, Get Over It, I Will Bite You, John Brodowski, Joseph Lambert, Ken Dahl, Minty Lewis, MK Reed, Monsters, Only Skin, Palefire, PS Comics, reading list, Robert Segel, Samuel Gaskin, Sean Ford, Secret Acres, Sick, Space, The Understanding Monster, Theo Ellsworth, Wormdye
