While drawing My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, I did a series of pamphlet comics titled Cosplayers. The character Verti appears in both stories, partly inspired by how Osamu Tezuka would use the same character designs across different comics. The Cosplayers stories are little allegories about how people relate to and use popular culture. This short story is about being excited to see a blockbuster movie, being disappointed by it, but still holding out hope that the next blockbuster will be good-- something we all can relate to! My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea is my dream blockbuster movie: an explosive, disaster art film. A collection of Cosplayers short stories appear in the book Cosplayers: Perfect Collection (Fantagraphics), the "perfect collection" a reference to anime box sets. Thanks for reading, and thanks, Talkhouse, for hosting this online.
An Exclusive Comic From My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea’s Writer-Director Dash Shaw
The day before his debut directorial feature comes out, Shaw shares a cine-centric comic from his latest book, Cosplayers: Perfect Collection.

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