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  • The first quarter of this jacketed hardcover will collect the work-storyboards, scripts, character designs, etc.-that Shaw has created for "The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D." animated series to begin airing on IFC.com on December 7th, 2009. The latter three-quarters will collect his acclaimed short stories from MOME, as well as several little-seen stories from elsewhere, and a new 20-page story.The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. is Shaw s first book since his breakthrough graphic novel of 2008, Bottomless Belly Button, which was named Publishers Weekly s best graphic novel of 2008, one of Entertainment Weekly s top ten books of 2008, and one of Amazon.com s top ten graphic novels of the year, amongst numerous other accolades. The book also collects Shaw s acclaimed, genre-bending short stories from MOME, including Look Forward, First Son of Terra Two, a remarkable story of two lovers traveling in opposite directions in time. Also featured: Galactic Funnels, the 2008 Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Story, about the parasitic relationship between an artist and his lover/mentor; Satellite CMYK, a sci-fi mindwarp that ingeniously drives the narrative through Shaw s masterful control of color, and Making the Abyss, a fictionalized story of a surreal film set filled with nuclear tanks, hot tubs, and blind ambition. Like the very best illustrated fiction, Shaw s work moves between pathos and humor, between the fantastic and the familiar. The Christian Science Monitor Shaw s style deftly combines cartoon drawings with a slavish attention to detail Masterfully using the comics medium to juggle all the different characters, weaving their stories together seamlessly. Publishers Weekly