Bottomless Belly Button

A singular, sprawling graphic novel from Dash Shaw, Bottomless Belly Button was originally published by Fantagraphics in 2008. This single-issue work explores the fracturing of a family over three days during a beach house reunion, rendered in Shaw's distinctive, emotionally raw art style. It remains a landmark of early 21st-century independent comics, celebrated for its ambitious, novelistic scope and deeply humanistic storytelling.