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The ACME Novelty Libraryby Chris WareISBN 1560972971 (1-56097-297-1)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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The Acme Novelty Library 16by Chris WareISBN 156097513X (1-56097-513-X)
Hardcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Acme Novelty Library 16'Book summary:After four years of almost exclusively repackaging his sophomoric early work for the book trade, the children's entertainer and award-winning calligrapher F. C. Ware returns to his groundbreaking 1990s cartoon series "The ACME Novelty Library," a nearly decade-long publishing experiment which more or less single-handedly demonstrated the redemptive power a fancy paper stock or a little gold foil might exert over an otherwise dull, dry visual narrative.
This semi-annual periodical originally serialized his surprisingly undismissed "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth," and now, with the 16th issue, Ware rejoins the proud, vital esthetic forum of the American comic book with his ongoing serial "Rusty Brown," a love story concerning the ambitions and mistakes of seven consciousnesses at a private school in Omaha, Nebraska, all revolving around a universally reviled child-and absolutely certain to be a favorite with readers of all tastes and biases. As told through the eyes of someone absentmindedly watching a television sitcom circa 1975, this first installment begins one January morning of that same year and describes everything of importance right up to and including the ring of the first period bell before eventually spiraling off into 1955, 2004, and toward the planet Mars, amongst other interesting and exotic time periods and locales. Riveting, fast-paced, and irresponsible, "Rusty Brown" distills the confusing and indulgent storytelling technique that led Mr. Ware's work to be referred to as "nearly impossible to read" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. (In addition, Mr. Ware promises parallel serialization of his other work-in-progress, "Building Stories," which is actually a much better and more interesting project.)
Though originally released by alternative comics vanguard Fantagraphics Books, this new sixteenth issue is the first to be entirely produced, printed and published by Mr. Ware alone; limited to a single press run, once it is sold out, pulped, and/or burned, neither of these narratives will be available again until "Rusty Brown" and "Building Stories" are eventually edited, collected and remaindered as hardcover books. Thus, be the first in your mercantile district to own this first chapter of what years from now is sure to be a tart, possibly insincere reminder of the fragile economy and mental disposition of the early 21st century. 64 pages, full color, 9" x 7" [via]More editions of The Acme Novelty Library 16:
Acme the Library of Noveltyby Chris WareISBN 1560974753 (1-56097-475-3)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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The Best American Comics 2007by Chris WareISBN 0618718761 (0-618-71876-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Blabby Chris WareISBN 087816572X (0-87816-572-X)
Softcover, Kitchen Sink Pr
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Bomb Vessels: Shore Bombardment Ships of the Age of Sailby Chris WareISBN 1557500711 (1-55750-071-1)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Building Storiesby Chris WareISBN 0224078127 (0-224-07812-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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Candideby Chris WareISBN 0143039423 (0-14-303942-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]
With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaires masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that all is for the best even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book that is vitally relevant today in our world pervaded byas Candide would say the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well.
- A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps and rough front
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- Amazing cover art from one of the most beloved modern comic artists
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Conway's Ship Types: First-Class Cruisersby David Topliss, Chris WareISBN 0851777104 (0-85177-710-4)
Hardcover, Brassey's UK, Limited
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Dangerous Drawings: Interviews With Comix & Graphix Artistsby Andrea Juno, Art Spiegelman, R. Crumb, Chris Ware , Sue Coe, Julie Doucet, Dan ClowesISBN 0965104281 (0-9651042-8-1)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Jimmy Corriganby Chris WareISBN 0224063979 (0-224-06397-9)
Softcover, Jonathan Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jimmy Corrigan'Book summary: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, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.
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Jimmy Corrigan : The Smartest Kid on Earthby Chris WareISBN 0224062107 (0-224-06210-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jimmy Corrigan : The Smartest Kid on Earth'Book summary:Chris Ware's graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth should be required reading for all those who persist in thinking that all comics are little more than picture books for kids. Jimmy Corrigan is a lonely man in his mid-30s with an inferiority complex, a debilitating lack of self-confidence and an overbearing mother. The plot--dealing with Jimmy's reunion with his father, who abandoned him as a child--is almost secondary, as Ware tells the tale of previous generations of Corrigan males via flashbacks, demonstrating how their own lives and circumstances culminated in Jimmy's feeling of alienation, abandonment and social awkwardness. However, rather than flinching from the subject matter, or allowing the tale to descend into syrupy sentimentality, Chris Ware isn't afraid to make Jimmy wholly pathetic, at times frustratingly so. The reader is given all the reasons why Jimmy is the way he is, but at no point does Ware attempt to make him likeable (when, for example, he meets his half-sister for the first time). He offers explanations, not excuses.
Jimmy Corrigan is further set apart by Ware's visually stunning, two-dimensional artwork, where simple characters are drawn against painstakingly detailed backdrops, and an overall creative layout that utilises more traditional uniform panels, full-page vistas, draughtsman diagrams and cut-outs, among other things. With the flashbacks and disjointed narrative, Chris Ware shows a remarkable command of the comics medium, elevating Jimmy Corrigan far above its peers. More than just a great graphic novel, this is a classic in any medium and won the Guardian First Book Award 2001. --Robert Burrow [via]
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Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928by Chris WareISBN 1560975075 (1-56097-507-5)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928'Book summary:In addition to 104 full-page black-and-white Sunday strips, this volume includes introductions, annotations, and rare Herriman ephemera from Bill Blackbeard and Chris Ware, and an essay by vaudeville historian Ben Schwartz.
This volume is one of a long-term plan to chronologically reprint strips from the prime of Herriman's career, most of which have not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost authority on early 20th Century American comic strips, and designed by Jimmy Corrigan author Chris Ware. In addition to the 104 full-page black-and-white Sunday strips from 1927 and 1928 (Herriman did not use color until 1935), the book includes introductions by Blackbeard, vaudeville historian Ben Schwartz and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera from Ware's own extensive collection, as well as annotations and other notes by Ware and Blackbeard. Krazy Kat is a love story, focusing on the relationships of its three main characters. Krazy Kat adored Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz Mouse just tolerated Krazy Kat, except for recurrent onsets of targeting tumescence, which found expression in the fast delivery of bricks to Krazy's cranium. Offisa Pup loved Krazy and sought to protect "her" (Herriman always maintained that Krazy was genderless) by throwing Ignatz in jail. Each of the characters was ignorant of the others' true motivations, and this simple structure allowed Herriman to build entire worlds of meaning into the actions, building thematic depth and sweeping his readers up by the looping verbal rhythms of Krazy & Co.'s unique dialogue. Black-and-white comic strips and illustrations throughout [via]More editions of Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928:
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Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930by Chris WareISBN 1560975296 (1-56097-529-6)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930'Book summary:This volume finds Herriman flowering into the peak of his inventiveness, liberated at last from the constraints of his syndicate's chosen format. Gorgeous cartoons are augmented by rare bonus materials.
This volume is one in a long-term plan to chronologically reprint the entirety of the 28-year run of Krazy Kat's breathtaking Sunday page, most of which has not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is painstakingly edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost authority on early 20th Century American comic strips, and designed by Jimmy Corrigan author Chris Ware. In addition to the 104 full-page black-and-white Sunday strips from 1929 and 1930 (Herriman did not use color until 1935), the book includes an introduction by Blackbeard and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera from Ware's own extensive collection, as well as annotations and other notes by Ware and Blackbeard.
Of special note to collectors, this is the period when Herriman was again liberated from the "grid" constraints of the mid-'20s and was able to compose his pages far more creatively, resulting in richer, more complex, more eye-pleasing compositions. Krazy Kat is a love story, focusing on the relationships of its three main characters. Krazy Kat adored Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz Mouse just tolerated Krazy Kat, except for recurrent onsets of targeting tumescence, which found expression in the fast delivery of bricks to Krazy's cranium. Offisa Pup loved Krazy and sought to protect "her" (Herriman always maintained that Krazy was gender-less) by throwing Ignatz in jail. Each of the characters was ignorant of the others' true motivations, and this simple structure allowed Herriman to build entire worlds of meaning into the actions, building thematic depth and sweeping his readers up by the looping verbal rhythms of Krazy & Co.'s unique dialogue. Black-and-white comic strips and illustrations throughout [via]More editions of Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930:
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Krazy and Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics, 1925-1926by George Herriman, Chris WareISBN 1560973862 (1-56097-386-2)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Krazy and Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics, 1925-1926'Book summary:A collection of reprints from the popular Sunday cartoon. The comic strip features three main characters : Krazy, the cluelesscat who is in love with Ignatz, the mouse; Ignatz who likes to throw bricks at Krazy, which the feline invariably interprets as expressions of love; and Officer Pupp who adores Krazy and is always looking to arrest Ignatz for his crimes. Krazy, meanwhile, always sees the arrests as just two good friends playing a game together. Herriman manipulates this formula over and over again into something fresh, each strip becoming a little funnier because of the readers' familiarity with the strange relationships among the chararcters. [via]
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Talesby Dave Eggers, Chris WareISBN 0241142695 (0-241-14269-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Quimby the Mouseby Chris WareISBN 1560974559 (1-56097-455-9)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quimby the Mouse'Book summary:The casual reader can be forgiven if, after reading cartoonist Chris Ware's introduction to his collection of early work, Quimby the Mouse, they experience a twinge of consumer regret. Ware--the artist behind the graphic novel sensation Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth--is almost pathological in his attempts to downplay these early strips. Indeed, he goes so far as to offer a caveat on the back cover: "Inside, you'll find unnavigable compositions, awkward metaphors, ill-chosen subjects."
But Ware's attempts to distance himself from this work, most of which first appeared in the University of Texas student newspaper and later in his own ACME Novelty Library, don't jibe with the actual finished product. To begin with, the volume itself is a work of art, from the typically intricate, gold-embossed covers to the pages inside, each of which is a testament to Ware's outside-the-box ability as a designer and artist.
This is a book that does for coffee tables what Frank Gehry buildings do for urban landscapes: arrests the eye and overshadows anything in the vicinity. As for the contents, well, while it's true a few of the strips are hard to follow owing to tiny panels and unorthodox narratives, every detail in this work is worthwhile. This includes the fake ads, which demonstrate Ware's mastery of 20th-century print advertising lingo, the instructions on building one's own "working cat head" and of course the strips themselves.
In the latter part, which comprises the bulk of the book, Ware's main character is the hapless Quimby, a version of a traditional cartoon mouse with a few twists. For instance, sometimes he's "Quimbies the Mouse," a two-headed version of himself. Other strips are elaborate, wordless gags focusing on the relationship between Quimby and a pet cat head that he abuses but can't live without. More crucially, Quimby is a stand-in for the author. This becomes especially apparent in the strips where the little mouse wanders through an empty house, and the narration echoes the book's introduction, in which Ware recalls working on the strips while his grandmother's health deteriorated. At these moments, as in Jimmy Corrigan, the book attains a black humour and poignancy no amount of defensiveness on the part of the author can deny. --Shawn Conner, Amazon.ca [via]
Rusty Brownby Chris WareISBN 0224078135 (0-224-07813-5)
Hardcover, Random House
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Storeyvilleby Frank Santoro, Chris WareISBN 0978972279 (0-9789722-7-9)
Hardcover, Picture Box Inc
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Uninked: Paintings, Sculpture and Graphic Works by Five Cartoonistsby Chris Ware , Marshall Gallery of Contemporary ArtISBN 0910407592 (0-910407-59-2)
Hardcover, Phoenix Art Museum
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