Indescribably strange, yet beautiful. The first half of this book is mainly storyboards from the eponymous television show, intercut with the occasional short comic fleshing out the storyboard. The Unclothed Man is a secret agent in a world that is mechanically replacing human activity, even one as simple as nude modeling for art classes, and it is his job to infiltrate these positions. He goes as far as to eat a planet with a black hole mouth gadget, and pose as an android in front of a woman w...

Is Dash Shaw is the future of comics? THE UNCLOTHED MAN makes a very good case as to why he might very well be. A solid collection from an artist who understands the potential of graphic storytelling as it relates to human psychology.

The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. is a wild ride through the world of Dash Shaw, who is certainly one of the more interesting young comics creators on the scene today. Some of these pieces previously appeared in the Mome series from Fantagraphics, but the title piece is new and exotic, and even more interesting when read in conjunction with watching the animated series of the same name that Shaw created for IFC.com. Shaw's comics are not always 100% lucid, but they're certainly always i...

I like that Dash Shaw self-consciously plays on comic/graphic design conventions. It makes his work interesting to read, although sometimes it just seems downright pretentious. Nonetheless, I like how his comics are intellectual, funny, dark, and conceptual all at once. It's also interesting how, in this book, he attempts to make connections between comics and storyboards (and by extension, animation).Even though I think that connection is interesting, in theory, I didn't think the actual storyb...

Hey, storyboards are kind of like comics, for people who don't have televisions. And if your storyboards are, like, totally brilliant, and someone is willing to publish them as is, why the hell not? It's not like anyone would want to read them.Is it a symptom of quick success that anything you can cough up gets published?

This book was very artfully packaged, and many of its stories are brilliant, complex and bursting with originality.

Dash Shaw is undoubtedly a major talent. Unclothed Man, isn't his Big Important Book, but it collects some of his excellent short works. This volume also remediates and his wildly inventive IFC animations into an engaging new format. Even in an "odds and sods" collection, Shaw challenges comfortable reading practices and makes meaning in new ways.

I loved the pages on plewds and solarads and other cartooning shorthand. There was some other stuff I liked, but I skipped all the storyboards. Felt like I was looking at a rough draft and Dash Shaw doesn't impress me enough that I want to read through rough drafts of his work.

Experimental comics (of course) from Dash Shaw, who continues over a long career to mine the unconventional and innovative. The first part of the book is storyboards for some online production I was unfamiliar with, and the rest, like 3/4 of it, is a bunch of Fantagraphics short work Shaw did for MOME, a now defunct rag. One funny section proposes names for silly comics icons (ones we know are things like beads of sweat for anxiety) he invents such as "Plewds," for "a feeling of isolation or dis...

Dash Shaw's variety of technique, use of color, and overall ability are showcased in this book. Some of the short narratives are confusing, but the visual patterns are compelling and the storylines are novel. It's clear that Dash took some risks by not having a clear, crisp style as seen in Bottomless Belly Button and even Body World, and that leads to some big returns and also some that fell a little flat.

Loved the cover. Most of the comics inside were either too small or too abundantly-lettered to read. Book would have perhaps benefitted from a larger page size. Seemed more like a disjointed jumble of stuff vs a unified piece. Disappointing, as I generally like Shaw's work.

Nice collection of Shaw's short comics, some of with originally appeared in Mome (one of my favorite anthologies, now defunct). Also includes storyboards for Unclothed Man and other animation.

The first part of this book is art from a TV series Dash Shaw did for IFC. I haven't seen it, but the art looks cool. Not much to say about that. The shorter narrative stuff at the end of this book is pretty awesome, though. It's taken me a bit to really get into Dash Shaw, but now that I have he's definitely one of my favorites.

Some of it was a tad too strange, but some of it I liked. I liked the story with all the comic conventions things in it. Like the sweat waves and stuff like that.

Shaw is dead brilliant. His work is deceptively "primitive" (like Jeffrey Brown) in terms of line and color choice, but there is a lot of effort to make these comics so. I usually prefer longer, unified pieces, but these shorts never once made me feel like something was missing (that shouldn't be, anyway). Amazing book; HIGHLY recommended.

A lovely little book store find.The story boards this collection is named after are not terribly impressive, but the short stories that make up the rest of the book easily do. Creative, weird, and touching, they are all worth reading.

Well,...I am not sure what to make of this book, which is why I liked it so much. This is not really a story so much as a collection of almost stories,... weird ideas with lots of inspired strange imagery. There is even a bland quality (which I like for some reason) mixed in with all these wildly imaginative scenes,...hmmmmm...I'll have to ponder this one.

Great sense of color; fast pacing; great feel for scenarios. While Shaw's artwork is good, his stories are slight--which means that his stories never go on longer than they need to, but I sense he's working for greater depth, which his sense of composition shows he's interested in.

This book is a bit schizophrenic: part storyboard for an animated film (doesn't really work in print) and part collection of short stories.Thankfully the stories are superb: imaginative, experimental, pushing the boundaries. I loved the CMYK story in particular. If you enjoyed 'Bottomless' you should read the hell out of this (even if it's a bit short).

Dash Shaw is unreal. I was in awe the whole time I was reading this. Twice as good as Bottomless Bellybutton, in my opinion, and I already thought that was pretty perfect. The thing that's so great about BB is it's such a tightly executed graphic novel with a singular vision and style, but with this collection you really get to see Shaw's range and the way he plays with color and shapes and bends time to his will, all while maintaining humor and heart. And the whole thing still manages to cohere...