Bald Knobber [Hardcover]

Middle-schooler Coles book report on Bald Knobbers, Reconstruction Era vigilantes, bears an uncanny resonance with his life. Donning a homemade Bald Knobber mask, Cole seeks to right wrongs perpetrated by his divorcing parents, moms new boyfriend, the school bully and his cat, Daisy. Like the real Bald Knobbers, Cole discovers the consequences of taking the law into your own hands.Robert Sergel was born in Boston, MA in 1982. He has a degree in Photo & Imaging from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. In the mid-2000's he was a member of the Transplant web comic collective. He draws the Ignatz-nominated comic series Eschew, a Best American Comics selection. SPACE: An Eschew Collection was published by Secret Acres and counted on Paste Magazines best comics of the year. Bald Knobber is his first novel length comic. He lives in Cambridge, MA.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.Promotion through the Secret Acres Scuttlebutt blog, Secret Acres Facebook, Twitter and tumblr nd through Robert Sergel's website, www.robertsergel.com, and the artists Instagram, tumblr and Twitter.Quotes to come!Sergels visuals fall in the same school as Nick Drnaso and Chris Ware& &this focus on details shows where Sergels attention is going, a method of communicating the subjectivity of experience without spelling it out. Form serves funcl£Í