Dash Shaw

Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator. His latest feature, CRYPTOZOO, which he wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance 2021 where it won the NEXT Innovator Award. It premiered internationally at the Berlinale, where it won an award in its program there as well. He’s also the cartoonist of several graphic novels, including New School, Doctors, Bottomless Belly Button, Clue: Candlestick and the forthcoming Discipline, out now from New York Review Comics. The San Francisco Film Society recently awarded him the 2021 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award. Work on Discipline began in 2014, and it was drawn over the course of six years.

Photo courtesy of Joanna Morrissey.