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The third and final installment of the artist's facsimile sketchbook series. After over fifteen years deferral, delay and dawdling, the ink-and-paper cheerleader F. C. Ware finally succumbs to imaginary public pressure by concluding his tiresome experiment in reader trust with the third and final volume of secret notebooks and sketches spanning over thirty-seven years of bus rides, airport delays and telephone hold music. Exquisitely crafted f...

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For the first time in his career, Chris Ware presents a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes autobiographical visual monograph, and opens a revealing window into the worlds he inhabits. Similar to Chip Kidd Book One and Shepard Fairey Covert to Overt, this book serves as a personal chronicle of a contemporary iconic illustrator, and is a must-have for those interested in illustration, graphic novels, and pop culture.The first and much-anticipated ...

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A major graphic novel event more than 18 years in progress: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories.Rusty Brown is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of three complete consciousnesses in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they in...

The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated as parodies, but whom now I wanted to humanize... amidst a setting of memories of my Omaha childhood and Nebraska upbringing.' (Chris Ware, Monograph)Now, twenty years later, Ware is publishing Rusty Brown in book form. It is, he says, 'a fully interactive, full-colour articulation of the time-space interrelat...

Nel suo classico stile istrionico l'autore, considerato uno dei padri del fumetto moderno americano, avverte il lettore "non comprate questo libro". Ware ha gettato le basi per un nuovo tipo di narrazione ultra ironica. Il libro è un labirinto di segni e storie umanissime in cui i lettori di tutto il mondo amano perdersi. Ware è il guru di un nuovo sentire. Il David Foster Wallace del fumetto. Premiato in festival artistici o letterari, è oggi...

Utterly eschewing the general bonhomie surrounding the newly-minted contemporary regard for the comic strip medium as a language of complicated personal expression and artistic sophistication, professional colorist and award-winning letterer F. C. Ware returns to the book trade with "The ACME Novelty Library, " a hardcover distillation of all his surviving one-page cartoon jokes with which he tuckpointed the holes of his regular comic book per...

Als Chris Ware die Graphic Novel "Jimmy Corrigan" zur Milleniumswende veröffentlichte, löste er damit weit über die Grenzen der Comicwelt hinaus Begeisterung aus. Seitdem gilt das Buch als "Jahrhundertcomic", der die Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten von Bild und Wort radikal ausschöpft und damit beweist: Es gibt große Literatur, die sich nur als Comic erzählen lässt. Jimmy Corrigan ist ein linkischer und dauerkränkelnder Enddreißiger, der ein Dasein al...

The New York Times Book Review, Top 10 Book of the Year Time Magazine, Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year Publishers Weekly, Best Book of the Year 2013 Lynd Ward Prize, Best Graphic Novel of the Year 4-time 2013 Eisner Award Winner, including Best Publication, Best Writer/Artist and Best Graphic Album Newsday, Top 10 Books of 2012 Entertainment Weekly, Gift Guide, A+ Washington Post, Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2012 Minneapolis Star Tribune, Best B...

You've devoured Fifty Shades . . . Now wrap yourself up in Wild Silk.Merran Faulkner inherits her eccentric uncle's fortune, but there's one condition: as a world-famous explorer, it was his dying wish that she should travel to South America to search for a lost Inca treasure. Certainly not something the sheltered heiress had in mind for her next vacation.But as Merran treks her way through the jungle, her uncle's artefact isn't her only new d...

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Chris Ware lives in Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois. His books include Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, which won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, Building Stories and most recently Monograph, which is part memoir, part retrospective of his career to date. He has won countless awards for his work and has been the subject of several museum exhibitions and scholarly monographs. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker.

This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, whic...

The "ACME Novelty Library #20" comprises a contributing chapter to cartoonist Ware's gradual accretion of the ongoing graphic novel experiment, "Rusty Brown.