Cosplayers

Praise for Cosplayers

Shaw has achieved a new level of literary depth in these smaller, more focused stories, and has created striking images through the use of digital patterns and washes of color. Cosplayers reminds you how good a comic can be, telling human, emotionally resonant stories through powerful pictures.


— Cleaver Magazine

Cosplayers will strike a chord with anyone who turns to reading as an escape, be they lit-nerd, comic geek, messageboard troll, or a little mixture of all of the above.


— HTML Giant

Cosplayers reads like an account of what it’s like when a person’s soul is addicted to fantasy, leaving folks with masks some will desperately want to be their real faces.


— io9

Dash Shaw is an utterly brilliant young cartoonist who has, in a few short years, advanced from the academic experiments of his earlier work... into a formalist genius whose skills encompass both a natural gift for color and a feel for subtle, indirect characterization.
— Bill Howard - Only the Cinema

Kaleidoscopic... Shaw has a deft touch... Like the very best illustrated fiction, Shaw's work moves between pathos and humor, between the fantastic and the familiar.
— The Christian Science Monitor

A former student of the genius artist-seer-cartoonist Gary Panter, Dash, it's fair to say, is something of a genius as well.
— Chris Ware

I’ve seen the future of comics and its name is Dash Shaw.
— David Mazzucchelli