Tag: Dash Shaw

Lots of good writing about comics these days, and even newish places to read about comics. Also many good comics.

More previews and thoughts from an array of comics creators and pundits - including some troubling warnings about what may be the biggest story in comics in 2022.

We kick off 2020 with a look at what happened in 2019 and what everyone is looking forward to in 2020 - and preview a new cat comic from Rachel Dukes and tease a mystery book from one of the industry's biggest stars.

Here's a preview of the new mystery!

From a Hollywood hunt for a missing pooch to the Permian Basin, we've got it all, with a stop to ponder Nancy.

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Add comics formalist/experimenter Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button) to the list of cartoonist/movie directors: his animated film My Entire High School is Sinking Into the Sea will debut at be shown at both the...

It's been a busy, busy few weeks of comics events in the NYC area, and here's one more: the final event for the year in Columbia's graphic novel program.

I find Dash Shaw's work to be strangely invigorating. I admit I had some reservations when I first saw the daunting heft of his Bottomless Belly Button, with its absurdly extended passage of a man running and profusely sweating, drawn in a style so crunchy that it makes Gary Panter look slick. The idea that all we cartoonists must now draw books that are at least three inches thick and that take several years of deprivation to accomplish thanks to the efforts of obviously dedicated workhorses such as Shaw and Craig Thompson was not a pretty one. But I was eventually to resign myself to this new order.

Box Brown ("Belen!", "Love is a Peculiar Kind of Thing") is a fixture at indie comics shows, tirelessly producing his own bold and appealing short comics on a regular basis, but also, in 2011,...

By Dre Grigoropol I have always been a fan of the Society of Illustrators.  When I found out they were taking the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art permanently under their wing, I felt positive. ...