Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator. His latest feature, Cryptozoo, which he wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance 2021, where it won the Innovator Award. It also premiered internationally at the Berlinale, where it received a special jury mention. His debut as a writer and 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 through 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 the forthcoming Discipline, out this year from New York Review Comics. The San Francisco Film Society recently awarded him with the 2021 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award.
