BodyWorld Release and signing with Dash Shaw.

Thursday, April 15th at Desert Island, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm:

Come celebrate Dash Shaw’s long-awaited BodyWorld book from Pantheon. The book itself is a must-see work of art.

BODYWORLD / 384 pages / Pantheon / 2010

BodyWorld is a comic that was originally serialized weekly on Shaw’s website from late 2007 to early 2009. It’s about a rogue botanist named Paulie Panther who travels to a remote experimental city where a new plant was found. He discovers that the plant, when smoked, grants the smoker telepathic abilities.

The online and print versions are slightly different. The online version is best if you followed it weekly as it was serialized, or if you want to read it in short bursts online for free. The print version is better if you’d rather read it in print and in a few sittings, since it is 384 pages. It has additional pages and images, and certain sequences were re-drawn and painted by Shaw to favor the print format.

Dash Shaw’s “Bottomless Belly Button” was named best Graphic Novel of 2008 by Publisher’s Weekly

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Happening Saturday, August 15, 2009. 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. At Union Pool, 484 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Austin English (Windy Corner, Christina and Charles), Lisa Hanawalt (Stay Away From Other People, I Want You), and Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld) will discuss the relationship between image-making and drawing for comics. How do pictures work differently in comics than they do on gallery walls?

Then stick around to get a book signed, hit the taco truck, and sip a summer drink with our featured cartoonists.

This panel discussion will be moderated by series curator Bill Kartalopoulos (The New School, Print Magazine).

$5 suggested donation. All proceeds go to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.