Salt

SALT is a graphic novel about two uniquely dysfunctional men with one goal: to save a monkey's life.

Painted with intense color and bold inkwork, SALT is a graphic novel about two snail/slug men who liberate a monkey from a vivisection lab, saving her life and facing the consequences of those actions. The monkey character is based upon a real experiment in which the head of one monkey was switched onto the body of another. Her character is intended to sit with the results of such an experiment in a compassionate and intimate manner. SALT is also about how pursuing one's goals and enacting change is often mediated by the strength of your relationships. Although this book is at its core connected to animal rights, it focuses a lot on interpersonal relationships and conflicts and the type of people who are willing to commit their lives to a cause. Unstable relationships between our main characters and tensions building create a sort of desperation in a relationship that makes people act outside of their own values, which drives much of SALT.

"Wow, this is a true out-of-left field masterpiece from a cartoonist I hadn't heard of before seeing this work. Intense and pouring over with color and a rich narrative, this is truly a unique experience of a book. Jacobs is working from a world of imagery all his own and the experience of reading this is a singular one. Don't sleep on this."
--Austin English, cartoonist and artist, Owner of Domino Books: Mind-expanding comics for freethinkers.

"SALT brings movement to the movement, utilizing the graphic novel medium as a hopeful method of reimagining historical fiction. Drawn with expressive urgency, Jacobs illustrates the heartbreak, responsibility, and fears that can coincide with animal rescue activism. Our protagonist's mental state trails into nightmarish moments that expose the challenge of practicing an ethics of care in a world that normalizes violence."
--Suzy González, visual artist

"To see Jacobs's art is to be challenged into a deeper sensitivity; drawn in by the densely packed, kaleidoscoping waterfalls and explosions of hope and pain that saturate each page in its own technicolor nightmare-vs-dream landscape. Brushstrokes capture the expressions of humans and other-than-humans against shifting backdrops dotted by minimalist utterances that require you to draw upon your most raw emotions and join in a collective yearning for any sign of compassion. SALT reveals a world that is at the same time hopeless and hopeful--that merges identities of human and non-human animals into both the heroes and the victims--within a journey that gives no guarantee of safe passage. I feel like Jacobs's art is unto itself a form of essential, beautiful, heartbreaking, and unsparing activism. Animal rights activists live balancing impossible realities and Jacobs's art is the language of that experience."
--Rebecca Moore, Founder and Executive Director, The Institute for Animal Happiness

"Touching. Unsettling. Soul-stirring. I'm in awe of Jacobs's art! SALT tells the story of three wounded spirits crossing paths towards healing. Poignant images, meaningful dialogues and a powerful preface combine to awaken us from our collective cultural insanity. SALT reminds us that nonviolence is the only thing that will make us feel whole again."
--Dr. Camila Perussello, author of Food for Thought: Planetary Healing Begins on Our Plate

"In his allegorical comic, Jacobs reveals the relational and psychic dimensions of trauma, anxiety, and care in the context of animal exploitation in scientific research and the activists who intervene. Deftly using raw, colorful illustration and relatable dialog, Jacob illustrates, through fiction, the lived reality by those who take risks to save animals from their systems of oppression."
--Linnea Ryshke, author of Kindling: Poetry and Art

Coyote Jacobs is a New Yorkbased illustrator who loves animals in all their forms. He is heavily inspired by his time spent witnessing NYC slaughterhouses and other places of animal exploitation. These haunting experiences inform the foundation of his art. He is friends with many chickens and fosters bunny rabbits. This is Coyote's first published book.

SALT is a graphic novel about two uniquely dysfunctional men with one goal: to save a monkey's life. Painted with intense color and bold inkwork, SALT is a graphic novel about two snail/slug men who liberate a monkey from a vivisection lab, saving her life and facing the consequences of those actions. The monkey character is based upon a real experiment in which the head of one monkey was switched onto the body of another. Her character is intended to sit with the results of such an experiment in a compassionate and intimate manner. SALT is also about how pursuing one's goals and enacting change is often mediated by the strength of your relationships. Although this book is at its core connected to animal rights, it focuses a lot on interpersonal relationships and conflicts and the type of people who are willing to commit their lives to a cause. Unstable relationships between our main characters and tensions building create a sort of desperation in a relationship that makes people act outside of their own values, which drives much of SALT .

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