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Bottomless Belly Button (2008)

Dash Shaw
Reviewed by Ken Tucker | Aug 01, 2008
Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW
EW's GRADE
A

Details Writer: Dash Shaw; Genres: Drama, Humor; Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button is a few days in the lives of the dysfunctional Loony family, coping with divorce, love, death, and adolescent despair.

For Fans of...
David Foster Wallace and Joyce Carol Oates.

Bottom Line
Seven-hundred-plus pages of minimal drawing for maximum emotional detail and the meticulous poignancy of the richest graphic novels. A

Originally posted Aug 01, 2008 Published in issue #1005 Aug 08, 2008 Order article reprints

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