







Some great photos of my library show taken by Patrick Harkin @patrick_harkin – Thanks Patrick!
This show is up for another month, until the end of July. Richmond Public Library Main Branch, 101 E. Franklin Street.
I have more of these. If another cool venue wants to show them, please DM me.
Some of these were made for zines. The bears and “Aged to a Tee” are from “The Seasons” zine with poems by Michael Robbins (Walkman, Alien vs. Predator). The guy with a book under his foot is the cover to “Windy but Nice” with poems by Tomaz Salamun (Woods and Chalices) co-published by Black Ocean. Black Ocean appears to still have it available from their website for a dollar. https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/windy-but-nice








Up now: A show of my drawing-collages at the Richmond Public Library Main Branch, 101 E. Franklin Street. It’ll be up for two months!
The opening is this friday, June 6th, 6pm, followed by a John Vasquez Mejias puppet show at 7pm. (He has a great show in the room next to mine.)
From the exhibition label:
Bubbles Con presents… Dash Shaw
While Shaw has long been drawn to work in many mediums such as animation and comics, it makes sense he’d be drawn to collage as well. He says of these works, “I always made drawing-collages but I started making many more of them during the pandemic, fueled by anxiety. Some of the smaller drawings here are from that time, 2020. Then, I started making them bigger, slowing myself down. I have large magnet boards in my studio and so scraps migrate around on magnets until interesting juxtapositions arise. I’m trying to make funny and unusual connections between things and, ideally, each one suggests a little bit of a story.”

Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 2pm
The Children’s Cinema at LIGHT INDUSTRY
361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn
Presented by Dash Shaw
Crac!, Frédéric Back, 1981, digital projection, 15 mins
I’m Curious, Sally Cruikshank, 1992, digital projection, 2 mins
Face Like a Frog, Sally Cruikshank, 1987, digital projection, 5 mins
Flatland, Eric Martin, 1965, digital projection, 11 mins
The Children’s Cinema, Light Industry’s ongoing program for the junior moviegoer, returns with a special afternoon organized by cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw. The program begins with Frédéric Back’s Crac!, a movie that glides dreamily, wordlessly around a rocking chair as a century of history and industrialization unfolds around it. (The film was much admired by Hayao Miyazaki, who joked to Isao Takahata after they first saw it: “So, I guess we’re failures, aren’t we?”) From Back’s Quebec we proceed to the liquid realities of Sally Cruikshank—the Max Fleischer of the 80s—represented here with an old Sesame Street spot and her nuttiest outing, Face Like a Frog. Flatland keeps things brain-bendingly multi-dimensional, adapting Edwin A. Abbott’s mathematical romance about A. Square, rather fittingly, as a cartoon.
Expect all this plus a special, surprise film. And we encourage everyone to stick around after the screening for a drawing workshop led by Shaw (complimentary art materials will be available at the box office).
Tickets - Pay what you can ($10 suggested donation), available at door. Advanced ticketing is available here until 12:30pm on the 12th, or until the show sells out.
Please note: seating is limited. Box office opens at 1:30pm. No entry 10 minutes after start of show.
Love Booktube reviews for Blurry!
Luke and Danny’s father publishes ParkWorld, the quarterly journal of amusement park industry news and analysis. When an ambitious new amusement park, ClockWorld, devoted to recreating time periods (an 1860s world, a 1950s world, etc.) is under construction on a remote island, the park installs a New School, an English language school to teach English to the staff of the park. Luke goes to teach English at the New School. After he doesn’t write back his family for a year, his younger brother Danny is sent to the island to investigate. When Danny arrives to greet his brother, his brother’s changed.
This book was published in 2013 from Fantagraphics, and is still around and available if you know where to look. 340 pages.
Blurry flip through
Blurry is on the NYRB website here.
A man can’t decide between two dress shirts to wear to his brother’s wedding.

After an unbelievably successful second year, the Richmond Animation Festival returns to the Byrd Theatre for year three!
A program of the best animated short films from the past and present kicks it off at 5:30. Then, at 7pm, artist Lilli Carré presents a program of her own animations followed by a live Q&A.
Carré’s films have screened in festivals worldwide, from Sundance, Rotterdam, Annecy, and others. Her work explores open-ended possibilities and histories of the animated body– bodies simultaneously physical and virtual, free of expectations or fixed form. Carré lives in Los Angeles where she teaches at the Experimental Animation program at CalArts, but she is here in Richmond for this singular screening and live talk.
Not to be missed! A single $15 ticket gets you into both events.
*As usual: After party at NY Deli next door.
Poster by Jordan Bruner.
Tickets are available:
3RD ANNUAL RICHMOND ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Richmond Animation Festival was founded by Jordan Bruner, Dash Shaw and Zack Williams.

Lit Hub on Blurry:
Lit Hub’s 38 Favorite Books of 2024
Blurry original art sale on IG! Get a panel and a copy of the book, in time for the holidays. UPDATE: SOLD OUT.
Fogbound: On Dash Shaw’s “Blurry”



Are Ollie and I coming to your town?
We’re hitting the road, signing and doodling in our new books and talking to our favorite people (the moderators and YOU). What better time to bounce around our country than shortly after our lovely election?
Schrauwen’s got SUNDAY, from Fantagraphics. A day in the life of Thibault Schrauwen (related). He checks his email and procrastinates. The book takes off. I’ve got BLURRY, from NYRC. A man can’t decide between two dress shirts. The store manager helps him choose. The book goes off. Two great tastes that taste great together. Plus, at these events, we’re talking to the very coolest people who emailed us back.
The tour begins next week…
Nov 7th Desert Island Brooklyn has commissioned a giant original risograph print. (That’s the image repeated above.) The Nov 7th 7pm signing event is extra special because it’s Ollie’s birthday! Apparently this is the third birthday he’s spent with me. I feel bad about this, so please other people come. Let’s make it a party.
Then Nov 8th, Brian Baynes will interview Ollie for a forthcoming Bubbles zine LIVE in Philadelphia, Partners and Sons. 6pm. I’ve never been to this store and it looks great.
Then Nov 9th, we are in Chicago where our spiritual brother Conor Stechschulte (Ultrasound) will talk to us. Quimby’s! One of my favorite places. 4pm start time so we all get to bed early that night.
Next we’re on the West Coast. Nov 12th, Los Angeles! At Secret Headquarters 5pm with moderator Sandi Tan (Shirkers, Lurkers). I wonder what Tan will ask us. This one has a preorder link, which will help them know how many books to order: https://thesecretheadquarters.bigcartel.com/category/event-books
Nov 14th, Zap’s San Francisco, Comix Experience, talk with Justin Hall (No Straight Lines) 6pm which I bet will also be special and unique. All of these talks and events are going to have their own unique style. This one will be broadcast live on Comix Experience’s YouTube page, which is perfect because Ollie and I will have our stand up routine completely in sync by this time.
What a joy to do this tour. Love to anyone who shows up. Thanks NYRC and Fantagraphics.
Dash Shaw’s Scroll—Buzz | Magazine | MoMA
A Halloween comic for MoMA!
More to Come 641: Stargazing and Dash Shaw at SPX
Talking about Blurry and Discipline with Meg Lemke at PW.

Talked about Blurry on the RiYL Podcast