Dash Shaw Books in Order

This collection of early short comics explores identity, relationships, and the uneasy boundary between childhood and adulthood. Experimental storytelling shifts between realism and myth, including a reworking of Echo and Narcissus alongside more intimate human encounters.

Librarian Virginia leaves Chicago to care for her mother in New Orleans. Meeting a musician who resembles a lost childhood boyfriend draws her into a relationship shaped by grief, memory, and attempts to revisit the past.

After forty years together, Maggie and David Loony announce their divorce during a family reunion. Their adult children struggle with the news, bringing their own marital troubles, loneliness, and suspicions into the crowded beach house.

In postwar 2060, botanist Paulie Panther arrives in Boney Borough to investigate an unusual plant. Its telepathic effects entangle him with local teachers and students, challenging the conformity of an isolated experimental town.

Storyboards, designs, and scripts reveal the development of Shaw's futuristic animated series. Accompanying short comics, including work published in Mome, extend the collection's exploration of speculative worlds, visual experimentation, and unusual forms of human experience.

Leaving her Illinois library job, Virginia travels to New Orleans to care for her ailing mother. A young musician recalls a childhood love, drawing her toward a relationship where memories and present experience begin to overlap.

Three short comics imagine distinct dystopian societies: a detective required to finish high school, people filmed during supposedly voluntary nudity, and children confined in prison camps. Each scenario explores unsettling rules governing everyday lives.

Danny Andrews travels to an island where his older brother Luke teaches English and a historical theme park dominates local life. Discovering Luke's new identity turns Danny's fascination with the place into alienation and family conflict.

Teenagers Annie and Verti combine acting, photography, and costume play to make their own films. Their creative projects recruit unsuspecting people as extras, blurring performance and everyday life while testing how they relate to others.

Annie and Verti attend Tezukon, a three-day anime convention filled with costumes, aspiring stars, and devoted fans. Encounters with fellow cosplayers and a Tezuka expert reveal the complicated social world behind their shared enthusiasm.

Dr. Cho's team enters dead patients' memories to bring them temporarily back to life. When Bell's daughter hires them after a fatal accident, the doctors face a troubling question about whether Bell wants to return.

Annie searches for a gift that will complete Verti's Indiana Jones costume, while Verti faces her own holiday-shopping challenge. Their attempts to choose meaningful presents turn fandom into a test of how well they understand each other.

Annie and Verti use costumes, filmmaking, and social media to participate in the popular culture they love. Interconnected stories follow their friendship and encounters with fandom, exploring the awkward overlap between fantasy, performance, and ordinary life.

Professor Plum receives a coded invitation from Mr. Boddy to view rare artifacts at his mansion. The gathering soon becomes dangerous, as threats and suspicious guests transform an evening's visit into a murder mystery.

Miss Scarlet's account adds another perspective to the deaths at Mr. Boddy's mansion. Suspicions involving the conservatory and a lead pipe complicate the investigation as additional bodies make the gathering increasingly difficult to survive.

The mounting deaths at Mr. Boddy's mansion bring the mystery to its final confrontation. A candlestick becomes a crucial clue as the remaining participants face uncertainty about the killer's identity and who might be targeted next.

Young Quaker Charles Cox joins the Union Army despite his family’s commitment to pacifism. Through letters with his sister Fanny, the siblings confront battlefield brutality, troubles at home and a religious community divided by the Civil War.