num_pages: 720
description: This is a reprint of the graphic novel that launched Dash Shaw as a major young cartooning talent: Official Selection 2009 Festival International de la Bande Dessine de Angouleme; named one of Publishers Weekly' s 2008 Best Books of the Year: Comics.Bottomless Belly Button is a graphic novel comedy-drama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family. When the parents announce their divorce the family comes together at their beach house for a week. Dennis the eldest son is having marriage troubles of his own and searches for clues trap doors and secret tunnels. Claire the middle child is a single mother with a troubled 16-year-old daughter Jill. The youngest child Peter is a hack filmmaker suffering from paralyzing insecurities who establishes an unorthodox romance with a mysterious day care counselor at the beach.Black &amp; white illustrations with some color.
language: English
title: Bottomless Belly Button
publisher: Fantagraphics