TONIGHT at LIGHT INDUSTRY, Brooklyn — Bobby’s Girl, 1985. Here’s an article about it on the Anime News Network, written by Justin Sevakis (who, strangely, I knew years ago from SVA. Small world.)
Some animation art from Seraph is up now on ebay — a 23 X 29” acrylic and airbrush on bristol by Frank Santoro and myself. And an 8.5 X 11” ink drawing by myself. They’re up for a week. Act soon if you want it.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 7:30pm
Dash Shaw + Bobby’s Girl
155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
With books like Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, and his latest, New School, the young cartoonist Dash Shaw is responsible for some of the most adventurous and idiosyncratic comics being made today. His dynamic serial forms feature elaborately layered panels and off-kilter figuration, betraying a remarkable confluence of styles and strategies, at times recalling everything from Sigmar Polke to manga. Recently, in anticipation of a feature-length project, he has also begun to produce a similarly variegated body of animation, which includes music video, the melancholy droid-drama The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century, A.D., and a biography that covers a chapter in the life of Dada doyenne Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. He’s also crafted cinematic permutations of his own comics, as well as adaptations of game shows and reality tv that marry their source materials’ original audio tracks with a series of static illustrations to uncanny effect—Wheel of Fortune never seemed so heartbreaking, or so strange. Tonight, he’ll present a selection of his experiments with moving images at Light Industry. Rounding out the lineup is a film chosen by Shaw that he finds resonant with the concerns of his particular hand-drawn animation techniques: Bobby’s Girl, an 80s anime rarity about a teenage biker, his pen pal, and his death drive.
Followed by a conversation with Shaw.
Tickets - $7, available at door.
Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
(( I’m screening some of my animations along with the 1985 limited animation anime “Bobby’s Girl” !!! It’s gonna be amazing!!! ))
Process pics on a two page spread of New School. A bar scene. I shuffled things around and eventually tilted the angle to make the space feel more dynamic and crowded. The first four photos are 18 X 24” sheets of paper, then the last (final) ink pages in the book are two 8.5 X 11” sheets — but the color layer is still done 18 X 24”. I draw things in stages, try to get fresh eyes on it somehow, sometimes one stage drawn a year after the stage before.
http://www.fantagraphics.com/3newstories
32-page full-color comic book • $3.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-721-5Order Now! - Also available digitally via comiXology
This one-shot comic book features three all-new, full-color short stories that explore varied dystopian societies. From a Sherlock Holmes-style investigator who must complete his high school degree to filmed “voluntary” nudity to prison camps full of jaded children, Shaw pens each story with his signature style and unique spin, all in 32 pages.
“A former student of the genius artist-seer-cartoonist Gary Panter, Dash, it’s fair to say, is something of a genius as well.” — Chris Ware
“Dash Shaw is an utterly brilliant young cartoonist who has, in a few short years, advanced from the academic experiments of his earlier work… into a formalist genius whose skills encompass both a natural gift for color and a feel for subtle, indirect characterization.” – Bill Howard, Only the Cinema
“Kaleidoscopic… Shaw has a deft touch… Like the very best illustrated fiction, Shaw’s work moves between pathos and humor, between the fantastic and the familiar.” – The Christian Science Monitor
I watched this newyorker.com interview on mute and realized the whole video is actually about my cat.
Hanging at the Fantagraphics Bookstore, Seattle. New School originals. I’m showing cartoons and comics there tomorrow.
Dash Shaw and more upcoming events at Fantagraphics Bookstore. Details here.
I’m at the Fantagraphics Bookstore on Saturday.
Next Thursday at Floating World in Portland. It’ll be a slightly different presentation than the one I do at Stumptown — (I tried to make it worthwhile if anyone goes to both.)
From Pittsburgh’s “Drawing Power” last Saturday.
Dash Shaw at Fantagraphics Bookstore on Free Comic Book Day! http://www.fantagraphics.com/news/shaw-fcbd
My cartoon/comic presentation is being refined as I go… All the fat will be cut by May 4th!
Thanks to all who participated in Drawing Power! We hope to get our hands on some more photos of the event to post here. For now, feast your eyes on the very first on-sale copies of Dash Shaw’s latest epic creation, New School (along with his two companion pieces, New Jobs and 3 New Stories). Those fortunate attendees who got their hands on them are probably reading it right now…
Your first glimpse…
