Tag: Bodyworld

Last year, “Asterios Polyp” won as the graphic novel category was introduced at the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. The five finalists in the category this year have been announced and the winner will be named Friday. Leading up to the awards ceremony, we will be looking at each of the finalists. Today: “BodyWorld.” In Dash Shaw‘s “BodyWorld,” published by Pantheon, aliens deposit seeds in the sleepy suburb of Boney Burrough, where Billy-Bob Borg, Pearl Peach and teacher Jem Jewel are preparing for high school graduation. New-in-town professor Paulie Panther, a botanist and drug researcher, discovers that smoking the psychedelic plants induces telepathic hallucinations. Hero Complex’s Noelene Clark caught up with Shaw. NC: Your book is about an alien plant that allows people to experience what it’s like to be someone else. How did you come up with this? DS: I ...