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A prolific cartoonist and animator, he is the author of the 2008 graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button.
About the Author: DASH Shaw grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and studied at the School of Visual Arts.
It is at once funny and fearless-and sure to be the graphic novel event of the year.
Nominated for a 2009 Eisner Award and with a bold, innovative design, Body World is a mind-blowing blend of science-fiction, classic high school drama, and futuristic what-if.
In fact, it appears that Paulie\'s brash individualism might not be at all welcome in a town that prefers conformity to eccentricity.
But when he shares this remarkable drug with his new friends, he finds that they\'re not interested in mind-expansion.
Paulie soon discovers that the plant, when smoked, imparts telepathic powers.
As he conducts his research, he befriends some of the local residents: Miss Jem, the alluring science teacher
Billy Borg, Boney Borough\'s star athlete; and Pearl Peach, the rebellious schoolgirl.
Professor Paulie Panther-botanist, writer, and hopeless romantic-arrives in the experimental forest town of Boney Borough to research a strange plant growing behind the high school.
It\'s 2060, and a devastating civil war has left the country in shambles.
Times Book Prize From the astonishing imagination of Dash Shaw, visionary author of Bottomless Belly Button, comes a darkly fantastical graphic novel about a small town, a lowlife botanist, and a mysterious plant with strange powers.
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