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Comic-Book Hero Young Dash Shaw has written the graphic novel of the year-- and it's not even autobiographical. New York Magazine, Dan Kois- "In October 2006, Gary Groth was sitting in a booth at a comics convention in Bethesda, Maryland, when he was approached by an earnest young man who pressed upon him the manuscript of a graphic novel--over 300 pages in comic-strippy black-and-white. Groth's wariness was not assuaged by the man's assurances that the pages represented less than half of the book he planned to write.
"It was a goddamn lot," Groth recalls of the first third of Bottomless Belly Button, the graphic novel then-23-year-old Dash Shaw presented him. As head of Fantagraphics Books, Groth has published such luminaries as Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware; nevertheless, he's despised by many in the comics world for the bellicose reviews in the magazine he's run since 1976, The Comics Journal. While the comics business allows amateurs to submit their work directly to decision-makers in a manner unheard of in other media--no expo exists at which budding novelists hand manuscripts to Knopf's Sonny Mehta (Groth's closest analogue, if Mehta also edited a meaner version of The New York Review of Books)--it still took a striking confidence on Shaw's part to submit his book to Groth.
The next day, back in his office in Seattle, Groth e-mailed Shaw to express his "intense interest." By May 2007, when Shaw sent Groth the last chapters of Bottomless Belly Button, a deal was struck, and now that enormous book--720 pages of knotty family drama, emotional teen angst, lyrical passages about nature, good jokes, bad parenting, architectural schematics, rudimentary codes, and explicit sex--has become the graphic novel of the year, combining youthful exuberance, sage storytelling, and visual experimentation."
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