Greg Hunter

Dash Shaw is one of the most restless cartoonists of recent decades, constantly evolving in how he approaches the comics page. In the years since his breakthrough graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button, he has continued to create acclaimed, idiosyncratic comics, varying his uses of line and color as well as shifting from domestic realism to sci-fi farce to historical fiction. But some concerns in Shaw’s work remain constant. His characters live within their own personal realities, often failing to connect or even communicate. Comics as different as the dystopian spectacle BodyWorld and the geek-culture comedy Cosplayers become sites of clashes between incompatible mindsets—with Shaw adapting his cartooning to capture new varieties of confusion, alienation, and more. In New Realities, critic Greg Hunter (The Comics Journal) follows the through-line across this adventurous body of work.

Journey once more into the land where no one grows old. Travel along with a group of unusual Ozites-including a female nome, an unmagnified woggle-bug, a considerate kalidah, a hot-tempered art student, a lazy lion, a winged hammerhead, and an educated troll-who are seeking the help of the sorcerer Zim Greenleaf to rescue a mysterious woman who has been trapped inside a diamond ring. In this volume, readers will be treated to a visit with Boq the Munchkin, who entertained Dorothy during her first trip to the Land of Oz; an encounter with a beastly serpent with the head of a tiger; a magical potion that can grant one's every wish; a beautiful country that exists inside of a flower; a wild unexplored bayou; a glass boat shaped like a swan; and the bizarre land of Fantasque, where reason and logic are left behind. But the old witch Mombi is on the loose, and she's got plans for the merry kingdom, including its ruler, Princess Ozma!

Journey once more into the land where no one grows old. Travel along with a group of unusual Ozites-including a female nome, an unmagnified woggle-bug, a considerate kalidah, a hot-tempered art student, a lazy lion, a winged hammerhead, and an educated troll-who are seeking the help of the sorcerer Zim Greenleaf to rescue a mysterious woman who has been trapped inside a diamond ring. In this volume, readers will be treated to a visit with Boq the Munchkin, who entertained Dorothy during her first trip to the Land of Oz; an encounter with a beastly serpent with the head of a tiger; a magical potion that can grant one's every wish; a beautiful country that exists inside of a flower; a wild unexplored bayou; a glass boat shaped like a swan; and the bizarre land of Fantasque, where reason and logic are left behind. But the old witch Mombi is on the loose, and she's got plans for the merry kingdom, including its ruler, Princess Ozma!