"Sammy Book 2 is a continuation of a meandering dream-narrative populated by distorted cartoon archetypes and id-wallowing personifications of Sally’s manifold demons. […] Shakily rendered in sickly browns and greens, the book swims in Schultzian ennui, Seussian grotesquery, and Sisyphian futility. But, you know, in a good way. For those who found out about Sally’s graphic-novel work after being aware of his long tenure in the veteran indie-rock band Low, it makes Sammy The Mouse that much more haunting and perverse. The series stands on its own as a monument-in-progress to the chronic disease that is existence…"—Onion AV Club
"Two things sit next to the crapper in our house: J.G. Ballard books and comics by Zak Sally."—Warren Ellis (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Dirty Three)
"Sammy the Mouse is... what I imagine it's like to have a nightmare about Oz when you live in Candyland. A ride to somewhere amazing."—Brian Evenson, author of Open Curtain, Immobility, Last Days
"[Sammy The Mouse] world is at once timeless, modern and nostalgic."—Rob Clough, The Comics Journal
"Sammy The Mouse Book 1 is a classic in the making, simultaneously funny, scary, and visionary."—The Onion
The denizens of Zak Sally's twisted theme park are back. Follow H.G. Feekes, Puppy Boy, Carl Urbanski, the Fish and Sammy the Mouse as they wander aimlessly, get excited about pie and fall into debilitating depression. Despite appearances to the contrary there's a palpable quickening in the cartoon air. The random course of events begins to cohere and glimmers of a grand plan begin to emerge. Sammy The Mouse is Zak Sally's magnum opus.
Zak Sally is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist whose work has appeared all over the place since he made his first comics 25 years ago. He owns and operates La Mano, an award-winning "micro-publishing" house who has published work by John Porcellino, William Schaff, Nate Denver, Jason Miles, and Kim Deitch. He spent 12 years in the band Low, was in that Shopgirl movie, and now teaches Comics to college kids. He lives and works in Minneapolis.
