What follows is collected from a series of emails.ĭash Shaw is a comics artist and animator living in New York. With the release of New School, I thought it would be the perfect time to talk to him about his process, not only composing the book, but about a few other aspects of his work. But there was Shaw’s work, doing many of the things I’d wanted comics to do, like the novels and stories I’d been reading. I’d grown tired of the graphic memoir in college, having been assigned one for a dense theory course-I’d always admired comics, but had never been a purveyor, hitting so many dead-ends, re-imaginings or documentations of childhoods, affecting and necessary as they were, after my initial exposure to the alternative via SLG and Jhonen Vasquez in high school (superheroes were out of the question by then serials still a strange thing). What fascinated me, and continues to fascinate me, about Shaw’s work is its ability to toe the experimental and yet remain completely accessible-reading his work, I never found myself perplexed, as some comics and literature tend to do to new readers. It was a few panels featuring President Obama, quickly followed by a succession of posts promoting New School (Fantagraphics, 2013), his latest effort. I first witnessed Dash Shaw’s comics on the Fantagraphics tumblr, a tumblr which, if you follow HFR there, you know I subject to many reblogs.
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