Zak Sally

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Sally playing with Low in 2004

Zak Sally [1] is an American musician and comic artist.

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He was the bass guitarist for the bands Low (1995 to 2004) and Enemymine (1998 to 2000) and is the singer and guitar player in The Hand. Sally is from Duluth, Minnesota, and owns and operates his own press, La Mano, in Minneapolis. [2] La Mano serves as a publisher for Sally's works as well as those of other comic artists, including John Porcellino and William Schaff. Sally was also a comics art professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. [3]

The third volume of Sally's series Recidivist was nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2006. [3] A Publishers Weekly review of his book Like a Dog described Sally's work as "richly dark, semiautobiographical, and tightly etched tales of tension and self-recrimination." [4]

Sally created the cover art for Low's album The Great Destroyer. In 2009, he sold the original artwork on eBay to raise money to fund a new solo album. [5] The album, Fear of Song, was released by La Mano in 2009. [6] [7] Ian Cohen of Pitchfork, reviewing the album, praised its lo-fi sensibility, calling it "wires-exposed and seams-showing, with an immediacy that pleasantly suggests the lot of it was freshly mastered about five minutes before it got put on disc." [8]

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  1. "Artist Initiative". Minnesota's Legacy. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  2. Bahn, Christopher (September 20, 2005). "Interview: Zak Sally of La Mano & Low". A.V. Club. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Zak Sally". Minneapolis College of Art and Design . Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  4. "Comic Book Reviews: 11/9/09". Publishers Weekly . April 9, 2009. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  5. "Former Low Bassist Zak Sally Sells Low Album Cover Painting on eBay". Pitchfork . July 9, 2009.
  6. Sawyer, Jesse (November 1, 2009). "Stereo Grapes". InDigest. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
  7. "Zak Sally: Fear of Song". Pitchfork .
  8. 1 2 Cohen, Ian (August 12, 2009). "Fear of Song, Zak Sally". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 8, 2025.