Hosted by Jon Dieringer and audio engineer C. Spencer YehWe visit Monday Night Books, Thomas Beard's speakeasy bookstore tucked in the back of Light Industry, to speak to cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw about Cryptozoo, Hungarian animation, and drawing inspiration from Starship Troopers and video game playthrough videos. And Beard (a former Desert Island Comics employee)  fills us in on Light Industry's upcoming move and his pivot to becoming "the laziest bookseller alive."Cover photo by Ed Halter.This episode of the Screen Slate podcast is co-presented with the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films.Support the showThe Screen Slate Podcast is supported by its Patreon members. Sign up and get access to bonus episodes, our lockdown-era streaming series archives, discounts from partners like Criterion and Posteritati, event invitations, and more.