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Dash Shaw


Born
Hollywood, The United States
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Genre
Graphic Novels, Comics


Dash Shaw is an American cartoonist and animator, currently living in Richmond, Virginia.
Shaw studied Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He has been publishing short comics and illustrations in a number of anthologies, magazines and zines since his college years. In 2008 Fantagraphics Books published Shaw's first long format graphic novel, the family comedy-drama Bottomless Belly Button. Among his other notable works: BodyWorld (2010, Pantheon Books), New Jobs (2013, Uncivilized Books), New School (2013, Fantagraphics), Blurry (2024, New York Review Comics).
Shaw's animated works include the Sigur Ros video and Sundance selection 'Seraph', the series 'The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD' and the movies My Entire Hi ...more

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Dash Shaw's Blog

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New Website Up!

There's a new website for the animated movie I'm doing. I wrote about it previously on this blog. This new site is a shared production blog featuring storyboards, animatics, production drawings that wouldn't otherwise be seen, original cartoons, other people's cartoons that we like, some writing, and I'm posting a drawing from my sketchbook every weekday on it too.

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Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.82 · 14,701 ratings · 1,391 reviews · 68 distinct works • Similar authors
Bottomless Belly Button
4.07 avg rating — 7,222 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions
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BodyWorld
3.93 avg rating — 1,565 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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Doctors
3.49 avg rating — 601 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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Blurry
3.89 avg rating — 535 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions
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Cosplayers
3.11 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions
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New School
3.48 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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Discipline
3.53 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions
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Clue: Candlestick
3.28 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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The Unclothed Man in the 35...
3.49 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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The Mother's Mouth
3.23 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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Series by Dash Shaw

Cosplayers #1 Cosplayers 2: Tezukon A Cosplayers Christmas
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CLUE: Candlestick #1 CLUE: Candlestick #2 CLUE: Candlestick #3
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Quotes by Dash Shaw  (?)
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“Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug.”
― Dash Shaw, BodyWorld
tags: life, living, mothers, suffering
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“That's what my penis is like: a beautiful, thorny rose.”
― Dash Shaw, BodyWorld
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“Eventually our whole world, every culture, will explode and we'll all just be fucking cosmic dust. We'll all dissipate. We'll all be nothing and everything. What's more spiritual than that?”
― Dash Shaw
tags: apocalypse, death, dying, humor, life
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