Dash Shaw

Bio

Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator. His latest feature, Cryptozoo, which he wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance 2021 and won the Innovator Award. His debut as writer-director was the animated feature My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, which screened at the 2016 New York Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, and had a 2017 theatrical release from GKids, the U.S. distributor of the Studio Ghibli films. Shaw is also the cartoonist of several graphic novels, including New School, Doctors, Bottomless Belly Button, Clue: Candlestick, and most recently, Discipline (out on New York Review Comics). The San Francisco Film Society recently awarded him the 2021 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award.