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Forget Me Not

Author: Gabriel Mason Howell  

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Author Tour: Chicago, IL; Bethesda, MD; Brooklyn, NY; Toronto, ON; Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; Los Angeles, CA.National Print Campaign: Advance copies to the following publications: the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice, the Atlantic Monthly, Portland Monthly, the Portland Mercury, 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: 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 Gabe Howell's website, , and the artist’s Instagram and Twitter.Quotes from Jessica Campbell, Edie Fake and Carta Monir!

Fouradorable, little girls, Complications, Misplaced Hate, Insecurity and Heartache,star in Gabe Howell's poetic, illuminated diary/manifesto/wishlist, ForgetMe Not.

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Author Tour: Chicago, IL; Bethesda, MD; Brooklyn, NY; Toronto, ON; Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; Los Angeles, CA.National Print Campaign: Advance copies to the following publications: the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice, the Atlantic Monthly, Portland Monthly, the Portland Mercury, 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: 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 Gabe Howell's website, , and the artist’s Instagram and Twitter.Quotes from Jessica Campbell, Edie Fake and Carta Monir!

Fouradorable, little girls, Complications, Misplaced Hate, Insecurity and Heartache,star in Gabe Howell's poetic, illuminated diary/manifesto/wishlist, ForgetMe Not.

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Death stalks a quartet of girls or is it the other way around?

A simple, elemental story of a group of adorable, little girls evading the specter of Death perfectly complements Gabriel Howell's poetic diary/manifesto/wishlist. What looks like a Victorian children's book complete with moral lessons, depicts an internal and external tug-of-war between vulnerability and intimacy, relatability and honesty, observation and isolation. The message remains raw and uncensored: don't hide it in a book; forget about who is or isn't watching; Forget Me Not.

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Critic Reviews

“"Like a cherished keepsake rebelling against the cruelties of an online auction, the wayward waifs of Howell's porcelain landscape are forced to fight their way through splintered selfhood in a broken world. Vulnerable and scrappy, wistful and ferocious, Forget Me Not is a sharp pinch in a tender place" -- Edie Fake, author of Gaylord Phoenix " Forget Me Not captures the painful balance of nakedness, shame, dread, loneliness, and anger that drives those of us who make our living from the curiosity and hunger of the public." -- Carta Monir, author of Secure Connect "Honest, unsettling, made with a tremendous amount of skill (all the while remaining stunningly unique), this is a comic to contend with... ...Themes of art, family, failure and fear all creep around the edges in a work that breathes thought and honed execution." -- Austin English, author of Gulag Casual "Soul-searing memoir, tasting of dark introspection. His hooks on the brush have quite a bite of the horror-tinged, and obsessive-yet-gestural constructions within sparse framing that stands out in the current comics scene." -- Bad at Sports "Amazingly beautiful. The drawings are fantastic... ...It reminds me of a demented Precious Moments." -- Gutter Boys "This is a book that gets its hooks in you--and then pulls on them for days, weeks, maybe even years... ...It's both easy and impossible to relate to, both intimate and coolly detached.... ...If you're one of those readers who values experiences that challenge your perceptions of, quite literally, everything? This isn't just a book for you -- this is the book for you. I still can't get it out of my head and have resigned myself to the fact that I probably never will." -- Four Color Apocalypse”

"Howell debuts with a collection of darkly poetic vignettes that use the aesthetic of Victorian-era children’s books to capture personal riffs on such contradictions as strength vs. vulnerability, visibility vs. privacy, and artistic creation vs. suffering. These play out through four doll-like young girls named Complications, Heartache, Rebellion, and Commitment. The fifth major character is a shrouded figure who represents death, self-doubt, isolation, and mental anguish. Howell’s elegant black-and-white drawings depict the girls grimly engaging in childish horseplay, driven by a narrative that pokes at romanticized views of insecurity, suffering, and visibility. One drawing represents the girls hanging around a tree, with caption boxes stating, “Self proclaimed broken people can paint beautiful pictures.... I don’t want to know pain just to find meanings.” Elsewhere, Howell insists that being strong takes its toll: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? I don’t want to be brave again and again.” Eventually, the girls engage the shrouded figure in a fight to the death, with the suggestion that they are destined to do this repeatedly. Art comics aficionados will find much to appreciate in Howell’s edgy, Gothic vision." - Publishers Weekly

"Like a cherished keepsake rebelling against the cruelties of an online auction, the wayward waifs of Howell’s porcelain landscape are forced to fight their way through splintered selfhood in a broken world. Vulnerable and scrappy, wistful and ferocious, Forget Me Not is a sharp pinch in a tender place" — Edie Fake, author of Gaylord Phoenix

"Forget Me Not captures the painful balance of nakedness, shame, dread, loneliness, and anger that drives those of us who make our living from the curiosity and hunger of the public." — Carta Monir, author of Secure Connect

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About the Author

Gabriel Howell

is a trans male cartoonist, illustrator, and printmaker. Howell was born in a small rural town in northern North Carolina in 1996, but only ever considered Chicago home. In 2018, he received his BFA from School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. He currently lives in Los Angeles with pop musician wife, doing design and illustration work for musicians like Phoebe Bridgers, 100 gecs, Perfect Hair Forever and PC Music, and WKND skateboards.

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Death stalks a quartet of girls - or is it the other way around? A simple, elemental story of a group of adorable, little girls evading the specter of Death perfectly complements Gabriel Howell's poetic diary/manifesto/wishlist. What looks like a Victorian children's book complete with moral lessons, depicts an internal and external tug-of-war between vulnerability and intimacy, relatability and honesty, observation and isolation. The message remains raw and uncensored: don't hide it in a book; forget about who is or isn't watching; Forget Me Not .

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Product Details

Publisher
Secret Acres
Published
10th November 2022
Pages
64
ISBN
9798985586305

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