Date: Thurs, May 2, 2013
Time: 6:00pm 10:00pm
Location: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St, Portland OR
The creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Bottomless Belly Button
and Bodyworld hits the road in support of his new graphic novel, New
School, as well as the one-shot comic book, 3 New Stories. At Floating
World, Dash Shaw will be signing copies of his new books before their
wide release, with a gallery full of original artwork and presentations
of his animation works (including the Sigur Rós video, "Seraph").
New School is a full-color, classic coming-of-age story that
encapsulates the current generation, both trapped and enthralled by pop
culture. Shaw dramatizes the story two brothers, one moving to an exotic
country where an ambitious new amusement park recreates historical
events and the younger one who goes to find his brother after years of
little contact. New School is unlike anything in the history of the
comics medium: at once funny and deadly serious, easily readable while
wildly artistic, personal and political, familiar and completely new.
Dash Shaw lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently writing and directing an animated feature film, The Ruined Cast.
