I'd alter old advertisements or general flat, clip-art like images, and add my own panels drawn in a baseline style, to connect, say, a drawing from an old romance comic of a couple on a bridge to, like, an Adidas ad for a pair of shoes. That's the kind of drawings I like, like Pete Morisi and coloring book drawings. It was a dynamic, splash moment but it was so frozen. I loved how stiff the drawing of the diver was. I clipped that diver from an old romance comic. The first page I drew was the diver page. With Doctors, I started with clips from different sources, mostly old romance comics. Sometime around 2010, I had a thought "comics are a collage medium - they're collages that you can read." Everything I've done since then has been extrapolating from that idea in different ways. Since each Doctors page is a separate unit, I could insert a page early in the book to set up something later. Is that accurate?ĭash Shaw: I had a system in place for improvisation, which is why the book appears unified (if it does). How much did you know about what Doctors would become early on, or from the outset? That sense of unity makes me think you might have began with other parameters for the book, even if they later fell away. I could switch scenes around, cut out pages, and read the book in entirely different page orders." After reading this, the book seems surprisingly cohesive, unified by what seems an almost flat-or affectless-tone, brought out by those solid-colored pages. George Elkind: You wrote on your blog that Doctors "was built one page at a time - each page is a single scene and a single solid color in the book. I've always liked Dash's writing both in and out of his comics-so I hope you'll enjoy what follows. At his request we corresponded over email, tweaking the full transcript afterwards, with one another's approval. I was happy, then, that Dash agreed to the following interview. Like the earlier titles, it seems humanistic but is also classically speculative, posing scenarios and asking questions with no clear answers. And after those came Doctors, a carefully structured work about a group of modern doctors who create and operate a machine that brings people back from the dead. Two issues of his series Cosplayers slipped out quietly into stores by mid-summer, each offering a playful, character-focused look at different kinds of subcultures along with a bouquet of subtle formal satisfactions. Last year saw Dash Shaw release some of his most interesting comics to date. George Elkind | JanuFrom issue 1 of Cosplayers
Features “How Can the Spaces Between the Pages Be as Meaningful as the Pages?”: A Dash Shaw Interview
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