NBPM SeqArt: WELCOME TO THE DAHL HOUSE

Every year when I return from SPX, I read other people's show reports and purchase lists and wonder if we went to the same event. There's so much to see that it's impossible to browse every single comic. Inevitably, there's books I regret not picking up.

This year, the book I missed was MONSTERS by Ken Dahl (aka Gabby Schulz), a graphic novel about herpes. (Just ordered up a copy from Secret Acres.) However, I did pick up WELCOME TO THE DAHL HOUSE: Alienation, incarceration and inebriation in the new American Rome, a collection of his previous work. It's a mix of quasi-personal and political comics, commenting on military enrollment, peeing in the shower, the commodification of zine culture, a night in jail, jingoism, and getting fucking old. Not surprisingly, I kind of related to the comics about getting fucking old. I'm still trying to decide what my equivalent for this sad fact is:


WELCOME TO THE DAHL HOUSE is available through Microcosm Publishing and well worth the measly six bucks. You can also see some of Ken's work on his Flickr stream.