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The Acme Novelty Library #17
The Acme Novelty Library 17
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Undaunted by lukewarm Internet and blogospheric opinion ("flat," "slow," and "always dreary") of his meretricious return last year to the tradition of the American comic book with the sixteenth issue of his ACME Novelty Library, cartoonist and professional sentimentalist Chris Ware returns with the seventeenth issue of this same title, and it is almost certain not to change general public opinion. Continuing with the second half of the introduction to his shamelessly meandering graphic novel Rusty Brown (which began last issue at a private school in the 1970s Midwest), the six-sided crystal suggested by the exegesis of the first installment is slowly turned and examined in midmorning winter sunlight sometime between the bell of first period and the conclusion of lunch for the first through the fourth grades. Also included are more thorough examinations of many of the main characters' cloudy motivations, personal habits, and favorite restaurants, to say nothing of the small dust mote around which they have coalesced and the complications in its life due to the acquisition of superpowers sometime the night before. Like the irritating distant family member you only have to see once a year, the ACME Novelty Library #17 will, as was its predecessor, be published by the author in a single, limited edition only, never to be reprinted until the entire library is collected as a single volume, though it may be promptly remaindered and/or discarded.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published November 28,2006
This edition
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64 pages, Hardcover
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November 28, 2006 by ACME Novelty Library
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9781897299029
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1897299028
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English
About the author
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Franklin Christenson ('Chris') Ware is a cartoonist. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by the London Times in 2009. An irregular contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker (where some of the pages of this book first appeared) his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park, Illinois.
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Unstoppably good. Absorbingly good. Just, good, and I find it hard to say why. People say this is really bleak or depressing, but if you have an absurd sense of humour, I just find it honest and often laughable.
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Eh. Same stuff again. I felt like I should go back and read the volumes I'd skipped, but so far I'm not impressed...
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The characterizations are excellent, but without a dramatic event at its center this installment of the ongoing Rusty Brown storyline seems aimless and meandering. I'm sure things will fit together much better when the pieces of this magnum opus are finally collected in a single edition.
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Yet another of Chris Ware's densely layered and beautifully designed and meticulously rendered works of despair, longing, and the nagging feeling that everyone hates you, even the ones who love you. Now I have to go find 1-16 and read them in order.
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I just finished this the other night. It took me maybe a half an hour to read, but I really fell in love (again) with Chris Ware's artwork. His stories are incredibly sad, but they tap into some really intense feelings human beings can have. This particular work is a continuation (I think, as it is the only other thing I have read by him besides Jimmy Corrigan) of the story of Rusty, an incredibly awkward child in grade school. He is obviously disliked by everyone because he is "weird". He has a rampant imagination that spills into his real life and causes these really painfully embarrassing moments.
I think I am in love with Rusty, and I hope he kisses the sweet nectar of my lips someday.
I think I am in love with Rusty, and I hope he kisses the sweet nectar of my lips someday.
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Chris Ware is a genius!
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Bees are cute, but they're no Quimby.
After reading the intro I'm afraid that Chris Ware might be reading this review late at night..
So if that is the case, I would just like to tell you Mr Ware, that you sir are a genius....at times a horribly disturbing genius, but a genius nonetheless, and for that I admire you shamelessly.
After reading the intro I'm afraid that Chris Ware might be reading this review late at night..
So if that is the case, I would just like to tell you Mr Ware, that you sir are a genius....at times a horribly disturbing genius, but a genius nonetheless, and for that I admire you shamelessly.
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