Shadow Hills

Author Tour: Author Tour: Toronto, ON; Chicago, IL; Bethesda, MD; Brooklyn, NY; New York, NY. National Print Campaign: Advance copies to the following publications: the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, 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: the Guardian, NPR, the Huffington Post, Comics Beat, the Comics Journal, Comic Book Resources, Flavorwire, Pop Matters, Under the Radar, Paste Magazine, the Onion A.V. Club and Slate among others. Promotion through the Secret Acres Scuttlebutt blog, Secret Acres Facebook and Twitter and through Sean Ford's website, www.onlyskincomics.com, and the artist's Instagram and Twitter. Quotes to come! Sean Ford creates a world that is both eerie and warmly mundane. Not an easy feat. - Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home Sean Ford's Only Skin is just the sort of comic book I like reading. Not only a tale of quirky surreal horror, intrigue, adventure and exquisite humor, this book has a great amount of heart. - Farel Dalrymple, author of Omega the Unknown and the Wrenchies Sean Ford's Only Skin is a spooky graphic novel about small-town life and death. Ford's deadpan pen-and-ink linework gives the book its sense of quiet menace; reading it, you have no idea what's coming next, but you know it won't be good news for these characters. - Slate What's more frightening: the unknown in the woods or the unknown in your neighbors? Ford doesn't come down on one side or the other, but beautifully teases out the horror in his premise. The presence of a ghost who resembles the iconic sheet with eyes and a mouth is a particularly interesting choice, seemingly harmless and all the more frightening for it. The ending leaves one unsettled in a way that's rare in any medium and calls to mind Werner Herzog's gift for evoking the uncanny in a truly Freudian sense. - Paste Magazine Exposing details of the action or the resolution would be churlish, for many may think them far less interesting than Ford actually makes them and skip this very well-executed graphic novel. Ford draws bigger kids and adults the way Charles Schulz might have, and his backdrops are as spare as the sets of those '50s B-movies. The book's in black-and-white (fortunately), and the big pages of this volume allow many a frame to have cinematic impact. - Booklist Blacked-out night walks in town are barely illuminated by streetlamps and sunlit scenes have the spacious panels they call for. When Cassie gets back into the old neighborhood, she finds Chris talking to a cop and cleaning up a ghastly, bloody scene that transpired in the station's lot. By the time she starts asking questions, a number of people have disappeared into the woods. From that point, even in its familiar framing and infrequent spots of dark humor, moments of certainty or comfort are scarce in Only Skin. 'There's a lot of territory out there...' says Chris. Sleepy or not, he means it. - PopMatters