This new graphic novel from acclaimed cartoonist Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, New School) is his most taut book to date.

Part science-fiction thriller, part family drama, part morality play for the 21st century, and quite possibly Shaw's best book to date.

Doctors focuses on death, bereavement and knowing when to let go. Doctors enter your afterlife to bring you back from the dead. 

Dr. Cho is the creator of the Charon, a device that allows his staff to take the form of a memory in a dead patients' consciousnesses, and bring them back to life, with one catch: the experience is traumatic and the process kills them again soon thereafter. But for some bereaved, the opportunity is priceless. So when Bell is killed in a random accident, her daughter hires Dr. Cho’s team to bring her back. But what if Bell didn’t want to come back? The dying unconsciously create the afterlife they want, or feel they deserve, in their minds before everything fades to black. Isn’t that better than the reality, and no less meaningful than life itself? Can unconsciousness coexist with consciousness? 

Author/Artist: Dash Shaw
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Page Count: 96pp
Size: 6 x 8
Notes: softcover, full color
Date of Publication: September 24, 2014
ISBN: 978-1606998038