Description:
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.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"Keren Katz's comics transcend the medium, the text is poetry, the drawings are dance, the stories are not like anyone else, she is a true original." - Richard McGuire, author of Here
"Katz's figures sometimes show Modigliani-esque exaggerations of standard body proportions, and she makes exceptional use of patterns and color to create two-dimensional textures. People, animals, and buildings are warped, twisted, or "transmuted" in order to strike at deeper emotional truths, and they're always fascinating to just gaze at. The Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow may require multiple readings if one is to fully grasp the the beauty and mysterious power of Katz's work, but it's time well invested." - Foreword
"The dreamlike narrative is illustrated with colorful, flowing full-page drawings of elegant and elongated human figures in ballooning clothes, always in motion and mixed with birds, architecture, and abstract shapes and patterns, all creating the sense of an unstable, crazy quiltlike reality. With minimal text, Katz's art loosely recalls highly stylized Art Noveau illustrators like Aubrey Beardsley or Harry Clarke crossed with a jumbled surrealist sensibility." - Publishers Weekly