The mother's mouth

Dash Shaw

Alternative Comics, 2006 - Comics & Graphic Novels - 128 pages

The startling new comic-tragic book from the artist The Comics Journal describes as "the scarily young and skillful Dash Shaw." In a pre-Katrina New Orleans, a woman starts dating a younger man who reminds her of her deceased ex-boyfriend. They begin re-enacting scenes from her previous relationship as a psychodrama to correct her haunting past. Replete with Pac-Man ghost spirits, Michael Jackson, children's drawings and deathtrap sandboxes, The Mother's Mouth is smarter, unsentimental Blankets that will be THE weirdo romance book of 2006. Not to be missed.

Contents

• Section 1: 5
• Section 2: 6
• Section 3: 116

About the author

Dash Shaw was born in Los Angeles in 1983 and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His books include Bottomless Bully Button and The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The mother's mouth
• Author: Dash Shaw
• Illustrated by: Dash Shaw
• Contributor: Dash Shaw
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Alternative Comics, 2006
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 15, 2007
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: Comics & Graphic Novels / General; Comics & Graphic Novels / Romance