BLURRY HC

Blurry feels like a culmination of all the work so far of writer and artist Dash Shaw, incorporating motifs and beats from earlier books into a masterful portmanteau graphic novel. But he’s not just recycling old territory, but rather evolving and developing on ideas, and changing their focus. How do we live our lives, is the main thesis here. How do we make the decisions that govern even the small, seemingly trivial things? And do they really matter? Shaw explores those questions through small snapshots of the lives of ten characters who have loose connections, each grappling with choices they must make. It’s a book that combines weighty philosophical questions with a breezy, wry, eminently readable style. A rare achievement, but Shaw is a rare kind of creator.