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Blurry
Now available from the New York Review Books website.
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.
Discipline
Out now from the New York Review of Comics.
Discipline is a graphic novel about a Quaker soldier in the War between the States.
Quakers are widely known for pacifism, but many Quakers joined the military and fought and killed during the Civil War. The text for the book is comprised of many actual Civil War-era letters and journals. The imagery is inspired by 1860s journalistic illustrators. Shaw worked on this book from 2014 to 2019, and conducted extensive research, primarily as a Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library.
One of The New York Times Best Graphic Novels of 2021
One of _The Guardian_’s Best Graphic Novels of 2021
One of _Globe and Mail_’s Best Graphic Novels of 2021
A short video about "Discipline"
Cryptozoo
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2021 Sundance Film Festival
2021 Berlinale International Film Festival
2021 Annecy International Film Festival
2021 The Contenders MoMA Series
MoMI First Look 20/21 Closing Night Film
SYNOPSIS
An animated feature about a zoo that rescues and houses mythological creatures. As cryptozookeepers struggle to capture a baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature) they begin to question whether they should house these rare beings in the confines of a zoo, or if they should remain hidden and unknown.
Stars the voice talents of Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Zoe Kazan, Louisa Krause, Angeliki Papoulia, Thomas Jay Ryan, Peter Stormare and Grace Zabriskie.
2021 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award winner
2021 Berlinale Generation 14+ Special Mention winner
2021 Champs Elysees Special Mention Award winner
2021 Sitges Film Festival Best Animated Feature Award winner
2021 Fantasia Festival Satoshi Kon Award for Best Feature Film
2021 Sundance NEXT Innovator Award winner
Meet the Artist: Dash Shaw on CRYPTOZOO
Cryptozoo - Official Trailer
"Mystic Brine" music video from the Cryptozoo OST
Clue: Candlestick
“Clue: Candlestick turns a board game into comic book brilliance.” — Oliver Sava, AV Club
“One of the most sublimely strange debuts this year” — David Pepose, Newsarama
The three-issue series is now available as a single volume paperback.
Who did it? How'd they do it? And Where? Answer these classic questions and solve the mystery in this comic series based on the timeless detective game.
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Toronto International Film Festival 2016
New York Film Festival 2016
Fantastic Fest 2016
AFI Fest 2016
Berlinale Film Festival 2017
Available from GKIDS.
SYNOPSIS
No matter your age, part of you never outgrows high school, for better or worse. Dash Shaw, known for such celebrated graphic novels as “Bottomless Belly Button” and “New School”, brings his subjective, dreamlike sense of narrative; his empathy for outsiders and their desire to connect; and his rich, expressive drawing style to his first animated feature.
Packed with action but seen from the inside out, “My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea” is about friends overcoming their differences and having each other’s backs in times of crisis, and its marvelously complex characters are voiced by Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, Susan Sarandon, Alex Karpovsky and John Cameron Mitchell.
-Synopsis courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center
A clip from the film
Official Trailer
Cosplayers
This began as a series of pamphlet comics, and then was collected as a hardcover, and is now finally collected with other short stories into the paperback Cosplayers: Perfect Collection.
Cosplayers is an ode to that defining element of fandom, the “costume play” of so many anime and comic conventions. Artfully celebrating both the culture’s obvious theatricality and uniquely D.I.Y. beauty, as well as its often awkward conflation of fantasy and reality, Cosplayers explores these delicate psychological balancing acts via a series of seven interconnected short stories surrounding two talented young women who combine their love of cosplaying with their love of social media and film in order to deepen their relationship with the popular culture they celebrate.
"Cosplayers" Book Trailer
Doctors
In paperback from Fantagraphics Books.
Dr. Cho is the creator of the Charon, a device that allows his staff to enter a dead patient's afterlife by taking the form of a memory in the patient's consciousness, and bring him or her back to life, with one catch: the experience is traumatic and the process kills them again soon thereafter. But for some bereaved, the opportunity is priceless. So when Bell is killed in a random accident, her daughter hires Dr. Cho's team to bring her back. But what if Bell didn't want to come back? The dying unconsciously create the afterlife they want, or feel they deserve, in their minds before everything fades to black. Isn't that better than the reality, and no less meaningful than life itself? Can unconsciousness coexist with consciousness?
Part science-fiction thriller, part family drama, part morality play for the 21st century.
New School
Out now in hardcover.
One of NPR's Best Books of 2013
One of The Austin Chronicle's Favorite Books of 2013
Ranked #4 on Paste's 10 Best Comics of 2013
Shaw tells the story of a boy moving to an exotic country and his infatuation with an unfamiliar culture that quickly shifts to disillusionment. A sense of "being different" grows to alienation, until he angrily blames this once-enchanting land for his feelings of isolation.
All of this is told through the fantastical eyes of young Danny, a boy growing up in the '90s fed on dramatic adventure stories like Jurassic Park and X-Men. Danny's older brother, Luke, travels to a remote island to teach English to the employees of ClockWorld, an ambitious new amusement park that recreates historical events. When Luke doesnt return after two years, Danny travels to ClockWorld to convince Luke to return to America. But Luke has made a new life, new family, and even a new personality for himself on ClockWorld, rendering him almost unrecognizable to his own brother. Danny comes of age as he explores the island, ClockWorld, and fights to bring his brother home.
New School is unlike anything in the history of the comics medium: at once funny and deadly serious, easily readable while wildly artistic, personal and political, familiar and completely new.
"New School" Book Trailer
BodyWorld
The webcomic is now available in a prestige, vertically-oriented hardcover book.
It’s 2060, and a devastating civil war has left the country in shambles. Professor Paulie Panther–botanist, writer, and hopeless romantic–arrives in the experimental forest town of Boney Borough to research a strange plant growing behind the high school. As he conducts his research, he befriends some of the local residents: Miss Jem, the alluring science teacher; Billy Borg, Boney Borough’s star athlete; and Pearl Peach, the rebellious schoolgirl. Paulie soon discovers that the plant, when smoked, imparts telepathic powers. But when he shares this remarkable drug with his new friends, he finds that they’re not interested in mind-expansion. In fact, it appears that Paulie’s brash individualism might not be at all welcome in a town that prefers conformity to eccentricity.
Nominated for a 2009 Eisner Award and with a bold, innovative design, BodyWorld is a mind-blowing blend of science-fiction, classic high school drama, and futuristic what-if.
Bottomless Belly Button
The modern classic is back in a tenth-anniversary printing.
Bottomless Belly Button is a comedy-drama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family.
After 40-some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce. But the reason for splitting isn't itself shocking: theyre "just not in love any more." The announcement sparks a week long Loony family reunion at Maggie and David's creepy (and possibly haunted) beach house.
The eldest child, Dennis, struggles with his parents' decision while facing difficulties of his own in his recent marriage. Believing that his parents are hiding the true reasons behind their estrangement, Dennis embarks on a quest to discover the truth and searches through clues, trap doors, and secret tunnels in attempt to find an answer. Claire, the middle child, is a single mother whose 16-year-old daughter, Jill, is apathetic to the divorce but confounded by Claire and troubled by her own "mannish" appearance. The youngest child, Peter, is a hack filmmaker suffering from paralyzing insecurities who establishes an unorthodox romance with a mysterious day care counselor at the beach.
In a six-day period rich with atmospheric sequences, these characters stumble blindly around one another, often ignoring their surroundings and consumed by their own daily conflicts. Visually, Shaw employs a leisurely storytelling pace that allows room for exploring the interconnecting relationships among the characters and plays to his strength as a cartoonist — small gestural details and nuanced expressions that bring the characters to vivid and intimate life.
Official Selection, 2009 Festival International de la Bande Dessinée de Angoulême
"Bottomless Belly Button" Book Trailer (Silent)
