Making The Abyss

Now open at MoCCA.

Making The Abyss (MoCCA show)

Making The Abyss
Drawings from BodyWorld, Bottomless Belly Button, animations and comic short stories by Dash Shaw.

Shaw's recent works (BodyWorld, The Unclothed Man, and Bottomless Belly Button) connect an interest with the human body, informed by figure drawing, with humorous character-driven narratives. This show displays his original art for these stories, which are often a combination of traditional crowquill and ink work with gaouche paints, acetate sheets, animation-style backgrounds, colored marker storyboards, and mixed media collages.

At the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401 (btwn. Houston and Prince) New York, NY 10012

March 12 – May 30, 2010
Artist Talk: Tuesday, May 25, 7pm

Hot Off The Press

MoCCA 2010 Festival Images

I did these for the 2010 MoCCA Art Festival.
The 17 X 22" poster: (this is sort of what Torture Hospital, the comic I'm working on, is looking like)

The booklet cover:

The t-shirt print design:

New Zine: Sundance

I'll have this for when I tour with BodyWorld in April/May. More on that later.

Volunteer in Closet

Britney Airbrush

Books Out

The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. is out now.
There are a few copies of the zine I had at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival available here.

Flap Design

Blind Date 2 panel

Animated Feature SLOBS AND NAGS to Sundance Lab

This was announced today.

Slobs and Nags is an animated feature I'm working on. Howard Gertler and John Cameron Mitchell are producing it. Right now it's basically the same team as Unclothed Man: with me writing/directing/drawing, James scoring, and Jane drawing- plus Slobs and Nags will have the new addition of Frank Santoro drawing! Yay!
It's very early in the process.

Images by Jashank Saworo.

Haunted High School / Vice Fiction Issue

Comic for the Vice Fiction Issue, The Haunted High School, is now online here.

Artbreak

Unclothed Man Series Now Online

The Unclothed Man series of animated shorts are all online now for free at ifc.com here: http://www.ifc.com/unclothed-man-in-the-35th-century-ad/
Also, in the "Extras" section they've hosted my 2007 Mome short story Look Forward, First Son of Terra Two.

Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival

This Saturday, December 5th, I'll be at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival hosted by Desert Island and Picturebox.

Smoke Signal 3 will debut there. I will have a new mini there too (above image.)

I'm scheduled for 3-4pm at the festival.

Before that, at 2pm, I'm on a panel on "comics and animation" with R.O. Blechman and Kim Deitch (!). It will be moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos at Secret Project Robot. A while ago I showed Deitch my IFC animations and as he was watching them he said: "...yeah... I did some of this in my day..." It was cool.

Everything is free.

Denis Johnson in Antwerp

Thanksgiving

UM 35 Acetate Dust Cover

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantagraphics/4110754187/in/set-72157622820342782/

The Ruined Map (Kobo Abe)

New Website Design

Mari designed the new version of this site. Thanks, Mari!

BodyWorld has moved to its own section, with the chapters opening when you mouse over the word "BodyWorld" in the menu bar. The front of the site is now this blog, where I hope to be posting more regularly.