Zak Sally

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Zak Sally{{cite web |url=https://www.legacy.mn.gov/projects/artist-initiative-335 |title=Artist Initiative |website=Minnesota's Legacy |access-date=April 22, 2023}} is an American musician and comic artist.

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.{{cite news |last=Bahn |first=Christopher |url=http://www.avclub.com/article/interview-zak-sally-of-la-mano-low-16609 |title=Interview: Zak Sally of La Mano & Low |work=A.V. Club |date=2005-09-20 |access-date=2014-08-30 }} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.mcad.edu/faculty/zak-sally |title=Zak Sally |last= |first= |date= |website=Minneapolis College of Art and Design |publisher= |access-date=2025-04-08}}

The third volume of Sally's series Recidivist was nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2006. 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."{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/27284-comic-book-reviews-11-9-09.html |title=Comic Book Reviews: 11/9/09 |last= |first= |date=2009-04-09 |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher= |access-date=2025-04-08}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/35861-former-low-bassist-zak-sally-sells-low-album-cover-painting-on-ebay/|title = Former Low Bassist Zak Sally Sells Low Album Cover Painting on eBay| website=Pitchfork |date = July 9, 2009}} The album, Fear of Song, was released by La Mano in 2009.{{cite web |url=http://indigestmag.com/blog/?p=150 |title=Stereo Grapes |last=Sawyer |first=Jesse |work=InDigest |date=2009-11-01 |access-date=2014-08-30 }}{{Cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13364-fear-of-song/|title = Zak Sally: Fear of Song| website=Pitchfork }} 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."