![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Frost, the poet, humblebragged in verse about choosing the road less traveled Dash Shaw, the comix artist, whether mum or yammering, ignores any previously blazed trails and heads directly into the woods whenever it seems necessary and sometimes getting lost among the leaves and the branches is part of the journey's greatest pleasures.ģ. And Shaw crafts narratives in ways that haven't been done before, seemingly according to whatever manner the aesthetics of what-he's-creating-at-the-time insist. Because you prefer art that's far removed from the realms of cookie-cutter, lowest-common-denominator production. ![]() And Shaw most often uses that specific form of communication to tell his various stories, and New School is one of those instances, and his various stories are intimately human and fiercely compelling and brilliantly weird.Ģ. Because you enjoy synergistic combinations of words and text, whether they're called comics or sequential art or bande dessinée or manga or whatever. Fantagraphics Books hardcover, 340 pp $40.įive Reasons To Read Dash Shaw's New School:ġ. ![]()
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