man i really want that book!
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 19 February 2010 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://dashshaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/making-abyss-mocca-show.html
Kinda tempted to head out for his appearance, though I'm always too lazy to show up for these things... haven't been to a Mocca thing in years.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
dieball trophy!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7kulKsz6MeQ/S6FJoAHDQtI/AAAAAAAAAXc/VSztOGXuDtk/s1600/dash_composite.jpg
― a bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw morons (ytth), Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
planning on seeing him sign bodyworld april 13 at the strand; any other ny'ers wanna go with me?
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ditto for me in SF/berkeley!
― a bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw morons (ytth), Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
well, on april 26th - 28th, not on the 13th (obv)
― a bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw morons (ytth), Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh hell yes – Body World came in the mail today. The title page says it's "Intended for the 'ideal reader'" and to read it "naked in bed."
― Ponies are horse children (Abbott), Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ha ha, i got that today too <3. acne novelty library.have not gone further than the first few pages, while i finish up something else; kinda curious to see if unfolding the map is as integral as intended. it is a weird shiny object.
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
having read it on the internet i would say no, but maybe try and read it with the map in mind just to please ol' dash.
― 404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link
also i must buy this!
bought my signed copy yesterday it's kind of scaring me a bit in its monotlithicness
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
also got it in the mail 2 days ago.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
mine should come in on monday... he's doing a few signings in the bay area, so i'll be sure to bring it. if anyone else is dying for a signed copy, let me know!
― a bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw morons (ytth), Friday, 16 April 2010 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.movieline.com/2010/04/new-sundance-lab-projects-include-ondi-timoner-dash-shaw.php
with james cameron mitchell!
― ₣õ®₭§©₤¤∵釰ƒü (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Lots more about The Ruined Cast, including a 4-minute teaser. It looks AWESOME. holy shit.
― fuck it we're going to Applebee's® (Z S), Saturday, 29 May 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Expected to be released 4Q 2011, let the countdown begin!
btw this thread should maybe be renamed "Dash Shaw's Bottomless Bellybutton", or something that incorporates his name to make it easier to search for ilx0rs of the future
― fuck it we're going to Applebee's® (Z S), Saturday, 29 May 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, what did everyone think of Bodyworld? I really loved the first 3/4 of it or so, but tbh I thought it started tailing off a bit at the end. Still one of my fav things he's done so far, though.
btw, did anyone else pick up the The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century compilation? There's a story in there about people of the future living in some self-contained spaceship with many floors in a system designed to prevent inbreeding that's probably my very favorite thing of his that I've seen.
― fuck it we're going to Applebee's® (Z S), Saturday, 29 May 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Satellite CMYK was the name of the short I was referencing with the people living in the isolated floors, btw
― fuck it we're going to Applebee's® (Z S), Saturday, 29 May 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, (sorry I'm on Dash Shaw overload today) there's a decent interview here.
I especially like this, which is basically an awesome unwritten epilogue to Bodyworld:
That said, if there was a telepathy-inducing drug, I think it should be experimented with, in a controlled environment, and I would definitely want to try it. But it's dangerous because if it becomes too widespread, it would lead to a hive mind, which is what happens in "BodyWorld." However, eventually, after the hive mind has become the norm, then people would find ways to "shield" their bodymind from the other members of the hive and things would return to almost exactly the way things are now, pre-telepathy. But that would all happen many years after the "BodyWorld" story ends.
And also this little bit about how his animation work is affecting his comics:
oing animation increases your sensitivity to your body, because you have to think about how you walk and move. You have to do a million little drawings for the most mundane things. You could do a comic like that, but it'd take a lot of pages and very little would happen, which is I guess what "Bottomless" is like. Now that I'm doing animation more, my comics are getting leaner, tighter, and more detailed. If you do a hundred drawings of someone sitting down for an animation, you want to work on one detailed comic page next, to keep yourself balanced.
― fuck it we're going to Applebee's® (Z S), Saturday, 29 May 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought bodyworld was fun and well structured but showed his need to mature as a writer... he got away with some silly scripting in bellybutton but it felt a bit strained and precious at times in bodyworldthat said: i'm so excited this guy is on the scene. hope he doesn't become a filmmaker
― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 29 May 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
name-checking P. Chung twice - nice! wouldn't have guessed that as influence
― Nhex, Sunday, 30 May 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, did anyone else pick up the The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century compilation?
I bought UNCLOTHED MAN this week, just thinking it was a collection of miscellaneous Shaw shawts. Imagine my annoyance when, removed from plastic shrinkwrap, the inside flap helpfully explains that it's 20% storyboards for a cartoon I can't watch, and 80% stuff I already have. Fuuuuck off, helpful bookshop.― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I'm a Viking! (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:12 (4 weeks ago)
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I'm a Viking! (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:12 (4 weeks ago)
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Sunday, 30 May 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
You can watch the ifc stuff free online, although none of them look nearly as cool as the trailer to his new film imo
― fuck it we're going to Applebee's® (Z S), Sunday, 30 May 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I watched all of Unclothed Man online and thought it was amazing.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 30 May 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
IFC even started geoblocking their podcasts a few years ago!
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Sunday, 30 May 2010 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
sic, you can't watch these?
http://www.ifc.com/unclothed-man-in-the-35th-century-ad/
― fuck it we're going to Applebee's® (Z S), Sunday, 30 May 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
unclothed man also collects his blind date short story, which is one of my favorite things of his. when i went to see him talk in berkeley, he talked about how there was going to be a whole book of these, based on pages from a blind date tribute website that he had bookmarked, but when the website went down and he couldn't get in touch with the page administrator, he gave up and moved on to other projects.
he's working on a new book in addition to the animation stuff, so i don't think the printed page is in danger of losing him just yet.
― a bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw morons (ytth), Monday, 31 May 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm, I tried, but after two minutes of buffering-and-playing, the ad before either Schrodinger's Shaw or a message saying that this content is unavailable in my area had made it from 31 seconds remaining to 21 seconds remaining.
BTW I should have said that Satellite CMYK was indeed great, in Mome. There was a high-school-set one that struck me the most from his contributions, though. I suppose I might as well actually turn the pages of the hardcover and read it again.
― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
he got away with some silly scripting in bellybutton but it felt a bit strained and precious at times in bodyworld
disagree! found bodyworld a real leap forward in art and script! opinions!
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
got my copy of bodyworld yesterday and re-read it last night in bed (but not naked). The vertical format - which i found interesting and novel to start with, then somewhat suspicious and cumbersome, and finally it just felt natural - is cool, and the book just looks great.
― Lil' Lj & The World (jim in glasgow), Monday, 14 June 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked the way that the fluoro orange ink on the left-hand side, where the spine would normally be, made satisfying snapping noises as I opened each fresh double-page.
― Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats. (James Morrison), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i keep moving house and whenever i come across this thing tucked away in a pile of books i'm sure that it's the nicest shiny-brown object i own
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Friday, 23 July 2010 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
as a banana slug farmer, I still agree with you
― i'm gonna need a +1 so me & a friend can kick you in the balls (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I finished editing the layouts for the new book I’m working on. I started working on this comic last year, simultaneously with the animation, but after going to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab (for The Ruined Cast) I decided to scratch what I’d done on the comic and script it all out- like a comic script, all words, and then from that I did the layouts in sketchbooks. This is the first long book I’ve completely laid out and scripted beforehand. Usually I’d start with an outline or piece together and rearrange separate scenes, but I’ve tried a lot of different ways, and I’ve written scripts for shorter comics before.
This is the first long book I’ve completely laid out and scripted beforehand. Usually I’d start with an outline or piece together and rearrange separate scenes, but I’ve tried a lot of different ways, and I’ve written scripts for shorter comics before.
http://i54.tinypic.com/2whgvna.jpg
PUMPED
― Z S, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ruined Cast" is one of those things where it's like they scanned my brain to figure out just what I'd like most to exist in the world w/out consciously realizing it. I am stoked. And also excited for whatever comic comes out of that epic stack of scripts!
<3 Dash Shaw
― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ruined Cast" is one of those things where it's like they scanned my brain to figure out just what I'd like most to exist in the world w/out consciously realizing it.
Definitely. Frank Santoro contributes, too! It's going to be awesome, there's no way around it
― Z S, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
frank santoro is awesome. i've emailed him back and forth about buying books and art from him, and there's this really noticeable and funny trend in his tone going from REALLY EXCITED THAT I'M INTERESTED IN HIS ART to just. barely. tolerating. me. he's still awesome, though.
― rag photographique (ytth), Thursday, 14 October 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Dash Shaw photographed for L'Uomo Vogue
― Mary Lynn Ice Cube (sic), Sunday, 17 October 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
he gets a groomer now?
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 October 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
bit of a dash shaw reference/influence in the new Chris Ware book, Lint, I think. Just a bit?
― dan selzer, Saturday, 6 November 2010 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Dash posted some character model sheets from the Ruined Cast (still really excited for this btw!) this morning. Character model sheets are pretty much my favorite thing to look at in the world, I think.
http://i52.tinypic.com/2nb7qkk.jpg
http://i51.tinypic.com/103x160.jpg
http://i52.tinypic.com/oktxqw.jpg
― need to impressive a girl? (Z S), Monday, 6 December 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I like Jose's full, puffy lips. They look satisfying to draw.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
me too. Jose's my fav out of the three. I had the following exchange with Dash on his blog:
ZSDecember 6, 2010 at 10:37 amThese model sheets are so fun to look at. I especially love Jose and his chiseled jawline. If you have any more I’d love to see them!
Dash ShawDecember 6, 2010 at 10:49 amThanks, ZS. I’ll post more later. Some of them get pretty sloppy, though. Mostly I try to keep everything very simple and generic-looking, knowing that when different people draw the same person it’ll always move a little off-model. If it’s generic, like a house style, everyone can shoot for the same face and it’ll end up a little wonky in its consistency (which I like) while still being recognizable as the same character.
― need to impressive a girl? (Z S), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
I should write Dash Shaw a letter.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Yesterday I went with the family to see Rabbit Hole, new movie w/ Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart directed by John Cameron Mitchell from Hedwig. It was OK. As my girlfriend described it "grief porn". But at some point you see a hand drawing these designs and it looked interesting but you weren't sure who was doing it. A bit later they start drawing faces and I immediately thought "that looks just like Dash Shaw's style" but it was pretty basic and I thought it was a coincidence. Later you see the complete drawings, a full comic book a character was drawing called "Rabbit Hole" and soon as they showed it I knew immediately it was his. The character in the movie even describes the comic, something about parallel universes and a teenager with a double looking for his father or something. In other words, a Dash Shaw comic. It looked great, I hope they release it!
― dan selzer, Sunday, 23 January 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I saw the drawings in the trailer and thought "D. SHaw???" I missed Mitchell's name in the trailer or I probably would have made the connection bcz they're both doing "The Ruined Cast." I want to see it in spite of it looking like 90 straight mins of a divorce (iirc?).
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't even put the Ruined Cast thing together. I can't believe how excited I am for the Ruined Cast. And in general I can't believe how excited I am about Dash Shaw. Been a long time since any kind of artist has affected me this way.
Anyway, divorce issues are there, but it's more about coping, or not coping, and people's various ways of coping. It has some funny bits and some melodramatic bits. It's worth watching I suppose but not a priority.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
wait...what's the deal with Rabbit Hole? I didn't know about any of this! Is Dash Shaw (the real person) putting out a comic called Rabbit Hole? Or did they just use some of his drawings in the movie? Sorry, feel like a dummy here, totally hungover.
― 23 24 (Z S), Sunday, 23 January 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yes. http://blog.electricantzine.com/dash-shaw-hands-and-art-in-rabbit-hole
― thank you based jättegod (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 January 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks!
also, that post pointed to a video that Dash put up on the Ruined Cast blog once that's cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcbHwS_hDBk
― 23 24 (Z S), Sunday, 23 January 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link