Dash Shaw is een gevierd cartoonist en animator wiens werk zich vaak verdiept in complexe relaties en ambitieuze werelden. Zijn graphic novels en animatiefilms verkennen thema's als familie, identiteit en de menselijke psyche met een unieke visuele en narratieve verbeelding. Shaw combineert meesterlijk humor met diepe overpeinzing, en creëert stukken die zowel boeiend als tot nadenken stemmend zijn. Zijn werk onderscheidt zich door originaliteit en het vermogen om emoties en ideeën op frisse, onderscheidende manieren weer te geven.
From the acclaimed author of Bottomless Belly Button comes a collection of his short-comics work and the designs for his first ever animated series for IFC.com. The first quarter of this jacketed hardcover will collect the work-storyboards, scripts, character designs, etc.-that Shaw has created for "The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D." animated series to begin airing on IFC.com on December 7th, 2009. The latter three-quarters will collect his acclaimed short stories from MOME , as well as several little-seen stories from elsewhere, and a new 20 page story..
During the Civil War, many Quakers were caught between their fervent support of abolition, a desire to preserve the Union, and their long-standing commitment to pacifism. When Charles Cox, a young Quaker from Indiana, slips out early one morning to enlist in the Union Army, he scandalizes his family and his community.Leaving behind the strict ways of Quaker life, Cox is soon confronted with the savagery of battle, the cruelty of the enemy (as well as of his fellow soldiers), and the overwhelming strangeness of the world beyond his home. He clings to his faith and family through letters with his sister, Fanny, who faces her own trials at home: betrayal, death, and a church that seems ready to fracture under the stress of the war.Discipline is told largely through the letters exchanged between the Cox siblings—incorporating material from actual Quaker and soldier journals of the era—and drawn in a style that combines modern graphic storytelling with the Civil War–era battlefield illustrations of the likes of Thomas Nast and Winslow Homer. The result is a powerful consideration of faith, justice, and violence, and an American comics masterpiece.
By the author of Discipline, one of the New York Times Best Comics of 2021, a warm and quietly inventive new graphic novel about a group of characters whose lives interconnect in subtle, often unseen ways—and the seemingly mundane choices that bring them together or draw them apart. A man can’t decide between two dress shirts for a wedding. A woman questions the style of her new glasses. A teacher considers quitting teaching. A figure-drawing model considers quitting modeling. A man drives into a fog bank and is unsure how to get home. From Dash Shaw, cartoonist of one of the New York Times Best Comics of 2021, comes a new graphic novel, Blurry. In Blurry, Shaw renders doubts around everyday decisions as startling cliffhangers, presenting us with the kinds of choices that can make a life expand or contract in equal measure. Drawn in clear lines and washes, Shaw captures the humor and anxiety of life in a one-of-a-kind structure that bends back to a thrilling, lyrical finish. Blurry is more evidence that Shaw is one of our greatest contemporary cartoonists.
Mariés depuis une quarantaine d'années, Maggie et David Loony annonçent à leurs enfants leur divorce. Durant six jours, une réunion de famille a lieu dans une maison proche de la mer. Dennis, le fils aîné, accepte mal leur décision, d'autant qu'il est lui-même confronté à des problèmes de couple. Claire, la cadette, qui élève seule sa fille, ne réagit guère.
Nominada a los Premios Eisner 2009, con un diseño atrevido e innovador, Body World es una mezcla alucinante entre la ciencia ficción, el drama y la literatura futurista. Dash Shaw ofrece, con una imaginación asombrosa, una novela gráfica divertida y valiente, preparada en coedición con Apa Apa Comics. Es el año 2060 y una devastadora guerra civil ha dejado el país en ruinas. El profesor Paulie Panther, botánico, escritor y romántico empedernido, llega a la ciudad para investigar una extraña planta que crece detrás de la escuela secundaria. Mientras lleva a cabo su investigación, se hace amigo de algunos de los residentes locales: Miss Jem, la seductora profesora de ciencias; Billy Borg, el atleta estrella de Boney, y Pearl Peach, la estudiante rebelde. Paulie pronto descubre que la planta, cuando se fuma, confiere poderes telepáticos. Pero cuando comparte esta droga con sus nuevos amigos, encuentra que no está interesado en una mente de expansión. De hecho, parece que el individualismo insolente de Paulie no puede dar a todos la bienvenida en un pueblo que prefiere la conformidad a la excentricidad.
