Shadow Hills

• It's been a while: After years of serialized issues, Shadow Hills collects all ten installments, a whopping four of which were counted among the best comics of their year by the Comics Journal.
• It's worth the wait: The complete thrilling adventure and its never-before-seen, epic conclusion are presented here for the first time, enlarged in full, glorious color.
• High profile style: Sean's design work includes books by authors Malcolm Gladwell, James Patterson, Dan Simmons, Joshua Ferris, Anita Shreve, among others, including the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Less by Andew Sean Greer.
• Sean's been around:Shadow Hills is the long-awaited follow-up to Sean Ford's perennial favorite graphic novel, Only Skin. In-between, his comics and illustrations have appeared in the Alternative Comics anthology series, Alternative Comics are Dead, online at Slate and Narratively, and in Verso Books titles.
• He keeps going: Sean Ford will tour North America in support of 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, , 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

Sean Ford is the creator of Only Skin and Shadow Hills, and a founding editor of the Best American Comics notable comic anthology, Sundays. He graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2008. His comics and illustrations have appeared in the Alternative Comics anthology series, Alternative Comics are Dead, online at Slate and Narratively, and in Verso Books titles. His design work includes books by authors Malcolm Gladwell, James Patterson, Dan Simmons, Joshua Ferris, Anita Shreve and others. He lives and works in Peekskill, New York.

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.