Zak Sally is an American musician and comic artist. He was the bass guitarist for the bands

Low Low or LOW or lows, may refer to: People * Low (surname), listing people surnamed Low Places * Low, Quebec, Canada * Low, Utah, United States * Lo Wu station (MTR code LOW), Hong Kong; a rail station * Salzburg Airport (ICAO airport code: LO ...

(1995 to 2004) and

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(1998 to 2000) and is the singer and guitar player in The Hand. Sally is from

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, and owns and operates his own press, La Mano, in

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. La Mano serves as a publisher for Sally's works as well as those of other comic artists, including

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and

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. Sally was also a comics art professor at the

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. The third volume of Sally's series ''Recidivist'' was nominated for two

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in 2006. A

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review of his book ''Like a Dog'' described Sally's work as "richly dark, semiautobiographical, and tightly etched tales of tension and self-recrimination." Sally created the cover art for Low's album ''The Great Destroyer''. In 2009, he sold the original artwork on

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to raise money to fund a new solo album. The album, ''Fear of Song'', was released by La Mano in 2009. Ian Cohen of

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, reviewing the album, praised its lo-fi sensibility, calling it "wires-exposed and seams-showing, with an immediacy that pleasantly suggests the lot of it was freshly mastered about five minutes before it got put on disc."

Works

* ''Like a Dog'' (2009), published by

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(collects ''Recidivist'' #1–2 and more) * ''Sammy the Mouse Vol. 1'' (2007), published by

* ''Sammy the Mouse Vol. 2'' (2008), published by Uncivilized Books * ''Mome'' (Fall 2006 and Fall 2007) * ''Recidivist 3'' (2006) and ''Recidivist IV'' (2015), published by La Mano

Discography

* ''Fear of Song'' (La Mano, 2009)

In pop culture

* Sally appears as a character in Jeffrey Brown's autobiographical graphic-novel ''Little Things''. * While thought to be the subject of "Minneapolis" by

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, it's been confirmed he was not. * Sally has a cameo in the movie ''

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'', as a member of the band Hot Tears.

References

External links

Official website
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