A Night of Animation with Jesse Moynihan and Dash Shaw

Appearing in Portland as part of their book release tour for Forming and Like Swimmers, Floating World Comics presents a night of animation with Jesse Moynihan and Dash Shaw. The pair will screen new material they’re working on and host a discussion about their various artistic projects.

Jesse Moynihan worked as a writer/storyboard artist for the Cartoon Network show Adventure Time from late Season 1 until the end of Season 7. He helped create the characters Lemongrab, Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant, Maja the Sky Witch, and Jermaine to name a few. He was heavily involved in the story arcs pertaining to Magic Man, Tiffany, Lemongrab, Betty, Wizard City, Glob, and Finn’s grass arm. In 2014 he co-created the animated short, “Manly” for Cartoon Hangover’s YouTube channel. Currently, Jesse lives in Los Angeles recording music for his collaborative studio project Make A Rising and writing and drawing Forming—an eon-spanning epic work of modern mythology about the trajectory of consciousness on planet Earth, now completed and published by Seattle’s Fantagraphics.

Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator. His latest title, Like Swimmers from New York Review Comics, is a fast-paced mystery in lush painted color that delves into loss, calamity, and whether we ever really know the people we love. His previous graphic novel Blurry was named a “graphic novel of the year” by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes and others. He’s also the cartoonist of Discipline, New School, Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld and others. He’s written and directed two animated features, most recently the 2021 film Cryptozoo, which won the Sundance Next Innovator Award. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia.