![]() ![]() 'Chris Ware is one of the great writers of our generation.I spent 20 minutes reading the cover of Rusty Brown. Rusty Brown is a human document of rare richness' Guardian With its awe-inspiring exploration of regret and ageing, anxiety and ennui. Ware tells each of their stories in minute detail (or as he puts it, 'From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed'), producing another masterwork of the comics form that is at once achingly beautiful, heartbreakingly sad and painfully funny. It is, he says, 'a fully interactive, full-colour articulation of the time-space interrelationships of six complete consciousnesses on a single Midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit.' The six characters are Rusty Brown himself, a shy schoolkid obsessed with superheroes, his father 'Woody' Brown, an eccentric teacher at Rusty's school, Chalky White, another schoolboy, Alison White, Chalky's sister, Jason Lint, an older boy who bullies Rusty and Chalky and fancies Alison, and the boys' teacher, Joanne Cole. Now, twenty years later, Ware is publishing Rusty Brown in book form. amidst a setting of memories of my Omaha childhood and Nebraska upbringing.' (Chris Ware, Monograph) '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. ![]() Ira Glass is an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio show This American Life.Īrt Spiegelman an award-winning cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus.įrançoise Mouly is a Paris-born, New York-based designer, editor, and publisher best known as publisher of Raw and as art editor of The New Yorker.Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. ![]() About The AuthorĬhris Ware is an award-winning cartoonist known for Building Stories, his Acme Novelty Library series, and the graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. The first and much-anticipated monograph by multi-award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist Chris Ware, chronicling his influential twenty-five-year career. Ware’s complex graphic novels, which tell stories about people in suburban midwestern neighborhoods, poignantly reflect on the role of memory in constructing identity. Ware is a passionate partisan of his vocation he loves Charles Schulz’s Peanuts (Peanuts’ was the lifelong psychological novel of. Chris Ware, known for his New Yorker magazine covers, is hailed as a master of the comic art form. The windows give him a view of the sidewalk, and on the wall he has a photo of Frank King, the creator of Gasoline Alley. Ware’s studio is on the third floor, in the attic. 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. A page from Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. Ware delights in finding hidden depths in seemingly antiquated art forms, a tendency also evident in his decision to dedicate his life to renovating comics. Monograph by Chris Ware Author Chris Ware, Preface by Ira Glass, Introduction by Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelmanįor 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. ![]()
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