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Are you dating your parents? Congratulations! You've been accepted to Mount Scopus Academy, where everyone becomes who they've always been.
About the author
Keren Katz is an Israeli-born cartoonist, writer, and the non-fictitious half of The Katz Sisters Duo. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts's MFA Illustration Program. She is the author of the Academic Hour (Secret Acres), nominated for the SPX Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. Her work has been published in anthologies by Smoke Signal, Locust Moon, Rough House, Ink Brick, Retrofit Comics, The Brooklyn Rail, Carrier Pigeon, Seven Stories Press and NOW. Katz is the current Center for Cartoon Studies fellow, and recipient of the SVA Alumni Society 2013 Micro-Grant, the Sequential Artists Workshop's 2014 Micro Grant, the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art's 2015 Silver Medal and Award of Excellence, the 2018 Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies sixth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic (The Academic Hour) and the Cartoon Crossroad Columbus Emerging Talent Prize.
Summary
Are you dating your parents? Welcome to Mount Scopus Academy, where everyone becomes who they already are.
Rivi’s been accepted to Mount Scopus Academy - but escaping Mount Scopus is like escaping your dysfunctional childhood— you end up recreating it. Is that cute boy following her, or is she dating her father? The familiar has its own gravity; just don’t fall for it. Even the best of us have daddy issues.
Foreword
- Quote from Liana Finck, author of Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir (Random House) - and others to come!
7,500 copy first printing. - 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, 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: NPR, the Huffington Post, Comics Beat, the Comics Reporter, the Comics Journal, Comic Book Resources, Flavorwire, Pop Matters, Inkstuds, Under the Radar, Paste Magazine, the Onion A.V. Club and Slate among others. - Author tour of Canada, with special appearances at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and Montreal Zine Fest.
- Promotion through the Secret Acres Scuttlebutt blog, Secret Acres Facebook, Twitter and tumblr and through Keren Katz's website, www.kerenkatz.carbonmade.com, and the artist’s Instagram, tumblr and Twitter.
