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Dash Shaw

Dash Shaw wrote and directed the independent animated feature My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (starring the voice talents of Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph and Susan Sarandon) which premiered at the New York Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival in 2016, played at film festivals around the world, and had a limited theatrical release in 2017. His graphic novels include Doctors, Cosplayers and Bottomless Belly Button. (March 2018)

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Grown Men Reading ‘Nancy’

The appeal of Nancy to the art comic crowd might seem counter-intuitive, but while Nancy was never particularly clever, it was always cleverly constructed. In fact, the accomplishment of Nancy, with its refined, reduced lines and preoccupation with plungers and faucets, might primarily be a matter of form. The beauty of cartooning may be difficult to appreciate, especially for those who have not been versed in cartooning for years. By dissecting this gag strip so systematically, How to Read Nancy is important for people working in the form, and also for the cartooning medium as a whole to be understood and recognized as the unique art form that it is.