"Sammy Book 2 is a continuation of a meandering dream-narrative populated by distorted cartoon archetypes and id-wallowing personifications of Sally’s manifold demons. [
] Shakily rendered in sickly browns and greens, the book swims in Schultzian ennui, Seussian grotesquery, and Sisyphian futility. But, you know, in a good way. For those who found out about Sally’s graphic-novel work after being aware of his long tenure in the veteran indie-rock band Low, it makes Sammy The Mouse that much more haunting and perverse. The series stands on its own as a monument-in-progress to the chronic disease that is existence
"Onion AV Club
"Two things sit next to the crapper in our house: J.G. Ballard books and comics by Zak Sally."Warren Ellis (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Dirty Three)
"Sammy the Mouse is... what I imagine it's like to have a nightmare about Oz when you live in Candyland. A ride to somewhere amazing."Brian Evenson, author ofOpen Curtain, Immobility, Last Days
"Sammy The Mouse Book 1 is a classic in the making, simultaneously funny, scary, and visionary."The Onion
"Sammy Book 2 is a continuation of a meandering dream-narrative populated by distorted cartoon archetypes and id-wallowing personifications of Sally’s manifold demons. […] Shakily rendered in sickly browns and greens, the book swims in Schultzian ennui, Seussian grotesquery, and Sisyphian futility. But, you know, in a good way. For those who found out about Sally’s graphic-novel work after being aware of his long tenure in the veteran indie-rock band Low, it makes Sammy The Mouse that much more haunting and perverse. The series stands on its own as a monument-in-progress to the chronic disease that is existence…"—Onion AV Club
"Two things sit next to the crapper in our house: J.G. Ballard books and comics by Zak Sally."—Warren Ellis (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Dirty Three)
"Sammy the Mouse is... what I imagine it's like to have a nightmare about Oz when you live in Candyland. A ride to somewhere amazing."—Brian Evenson, author ofOpen Curtain, Immobility, Last Days
"Sammy The Mouse Book 1 is a classic in the making, simultaneously funny, scary, and visionary."—The Onion