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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 741 EAN: 9781897299173 Edition: 1st ISBN: 1897299176 Label: Drawn & Quarterly Manufacturer: Drawn & Quarterly Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 56 Publication Date: December 10, 2007 Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Release Date: December 10, 2007 Studio: Drawn & Quarterly Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: In keeping with his athletic goal of issuing a volume of his occasionally lauded ACME series once every new autumn, volume 18 finds cartoonist Chris Ware abandoning the engaging serialization of his “Rusty Brown” and instead focusing upon his ongoing and more experimentally grim narrative “Building Stories.” Collecting pages unseen except in obscure alternative weekly periodicals and sophisticated expensive coffee-table magazines, ACME Novelty Library #18 reintroduces the characters that New York Times readers found “dry” and “deeply depressing” when one chapter of the work (not included here) was presented in its pages during 2005 and 2006. Set in a Chicago apartment building more or less in the year 2000, the stories move from the straightforward to the mnemonically complex, invading characters’ memories and personal ambitions with a text point size likely unreadable to human beings over the age of forty-five. Reformatted to accommodate this different material, readers will be pleased by the volume’s vertical shape and tasteful design, which, unlike Ware’s earlier volumes, should discreetly blend into any stack or shelf of real books. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Some new ground, some old groundA must-read for Ware fans. It's a compelling narrative with the same quality artwork we've come to expect and is reasonably priced for such a beautifully-designed hardcover. That said, it's a valid criticism that Ware treads too much familiar territory, here and in all his post-Jimmy Corrigan work. Yes, he experiments in this book, but it's in the style he had already carved out by 1995. We see Ware experimenting with different artistic styles in his notebooks, so why never in his comics? ... Read More Rating:  - Gets under your skinDolorous and melancholy, Chris Ware's work has always drawn me like a moth to flame. I can't recall a work from a female perspective before, and this one is a quiet, soft, lovely work about a sad and lonely woman who has had a very intense life. The work of deciphering his labyrinthine panel constructions or reading all the fine print has always paid off and this work is no different, but this one sticks out for me a little for being even more intimate than his other more clinical studies of his characters. ... Read More Rating: - "Stunning" MasterpieceWith his latest "comic book" offering, Chris Ware has again demonstrated a mastery of the medium uniquely his own. His design sense and technical skill as an illustrator long unquestioned, his writing routinely (and especially here) deserves the same consideration. Underneath the story's typically apparent theme of alienation (with new characters in the Acme Library, if I'm not mistaken), there is much more at work. Amazingly, over just 56 pages, Ware's finely crafted drawings along with well considered ... Read More Rating:  - Not Another One of Those...The artwork is quite wonderful, to say the least, as is the narrative. BUT the theme however...how many graphic novels/comic books out there depict this same alienation/loneliness/depressed theme over and over and over again to a point where these stories blur into one big whine. I mean, I get that not all stories can be like Maus or Persepolis and the like, but give me a break. I bought this for the artwork though. The 3 stars go to that. Rating: - Beautifully Rendered, Deeply AffectingThis is a beautifully rendered, deeply affecting work of art. I am not much of a comic reader, but once I started this one I could not put it down. And when I finished, I was crying. Readers of The New York Times Magazine will be familiar with the setting of the old building with feelings and the character of a woman with a prosthetic leg. The story here focuses on her: a lonely, alienated young woman's first experience with love and loss, depression and despair. Told this way, with sensitivity and empathy -- in Chris ... Read More 
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