Dash Shaw

A pandemic murder mystery out in August from NYRB.

LIKE SWIMMERS.

New zine alert: "Like Swimmers: Special Memory."

This is a 12 pg 11 X 17” newspaper zine like others I’ve done except this is ALL COMICS. It includes the comic short story WHAT’S OFF and cut panels/sketches for my forthcoming book LIKE SWIMMERS (out in August from NYRC).

It’s around for free or free-ish ($2), including on Pittsburgh's own Copacetic website where they also have copies remaining of my last one ANT DODGER that had my comic short story WHAT ABOUT HUMILITY?

The Daily Heller on the book I co-edited THE SMYTHES:

Some great photos of my library show taken by Patrick Harkin @patrick_harkin – Thanks Patrick!

This show is up for another month, until the end of July.  Richmond Public Library Main Branch, 101 E. Franklin Street.

I have more of these. If another cool venue wants to show them, please DM me.

Up now: A show of my drawing-collages at the Richmond Public Library Main Branch, 101 E. Franklin Street. It’ll be up for two months!

The opening is this friday, June 6th, 6pm, followed by a John Vasquez Mejias puppet show at 7pm. (He has a great show in the room next to mine.)

From the exhibition label: Bubbles Con presents… Dash Shaw

Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 2pm The Children's Cinema at LIGHT INDUSTRY 361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn

Presented by Dash Shaw

Crac!, Frédéric Back, 1981, digital projection, 15 mins I’m Curious, Sally Cruikshank, 1992, digital projection, 2 mins Face Like a Frog, Sally Cruikshank, 1987, digital projection, 5 mins Flatland, Eric Martin, 1965, digital projection, 11 mins

The Children’s Cinema, Light Industry’s ongoing program for the junior moviegoer, returns with a special afternoon organized by cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw. The program begins with Frédéric Back’s Crac!, a movie that glides dreamily, wordlessly around a rocking chair as a century of history and industrialization unfolds around it. (The film was much admired by Hayao Miyazaki, who joked to Isao Takahata after they first saw it: “So, I guess we’re failures, aren’t we?”) From Back’s Quebec we proceed to the liquid realities of Sally Cruikshank—the Max Fleischer of the 80s—represented here with an old Sesame Street spot and her nuttiest outing, Face Like a Frog. Flatland keeps things brain-bendingly multi-dimensional, adapting Edwin A. Abbott’s mathematical romance about A. Square, rather fittingly, as a cartoon.

Expect all this plus a special, surprise film. And we encourage everyone to stick around after the screening for a drawing workshop led by Shaw (complimentary art materials will be available at the box office).

Tickets - Pay what you can ($10 suggested donation), available at door. Advanced ticketing is available here until 12:30pm on the 12th, or until the show sells out.

Luke and Danny's father publishes ParkWorld, the quarterly journal of amusement park industry news and analysis. When an ambitious new amusement park, ClockWorld, devoted to recreating time periods (an 1860s world, a 1950s world, etc.) is under construction on a remote island, the park installs a New School, an English language school to teach English to the staff of the park. Luke goes to teach English at the New School. After he doesn't write back his family for a year, his younger brother Danny is sent to the island to investigate. When Danny arrives to greet his brother, his brother's changed.

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Blurry is on the NYRB website here.

After an unbelievably successful second year, the Richmond Animation Festival returns to the Byrd Theatre for year three!

A program of the best animated short films from the past and present kicks it off at 5:30. Then, at 7pm, artist Lilli Carré presents a program of her own animations followed by a live Q&A.

Carré's films have screened in festivals worldwide, from Sundance, Rotterdam, Annecy, and others. Her work explores open-ended possibilities and histories of the animated body-- bodies simultaneously physical and virtual, free of expectations or fixed form. Carré lives in Los Angeles where she teaches at the Experimental Animation program at CalArts, but she is here in Richmond for this singular screening and live talk.

Not to be missed! A single $15 ticket gets you into both events.

*As usual: After party at NY Deli next door.

Poster by Jordan Bruner.

Tickets are available:

Lit Hub on Blurry: