Synopsis

As cryptozookeepers struggle to capture a baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature) they begin to wonder if they should display these rare beasts in the confines of a zoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown.

Dash Shaw

Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator whose latest graphic novel,Cosplayers arrived September 2016 from Fantagraphics Books. His other recent books include Doctors, New School, BodyWorld and Bottomless Belly Button. His animated works includeWheel of Fortune, the Sigur Ros video and Sundance selectionSeraph (co-written with John Cameron Mitchell), and the 2009 IFC web seriesThe Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD. He wrote and directed the independent animated feature My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (starring the voice talents of Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph and Susan Sarandon) which played at film festivals around the world, and had a U.S. theatrical release. He was a 2010 Sundance Labs fellow, a 2014-2015 Cullman Center fellow, and a 2016 MacDowell Colony fellow.