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The Acme Novelty Library #16
The Acme Novelty Library 16
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The creator of Jimmy Corrigan begins a new story.
This newest edition of The ACME Novelty Library features the first serial installment of "Rusty Brown," Ware's first major lengthy "narrative indulgence" since his Jimmy Corrigan graphic novel. The ACME Novelty Library is Chris Ware's ongoing comic book/art object series, which he has been creating for Fantagraphics since 1993. It is also where Corrigan was serialized to great acclaim and success before going supernova when collected by Pantheon in 2000, selling over 70,000 copies in four hardcover printings.
"Rusty Brown" will be serialized in ACME over the course of several issues (and Pantheon will similarly collect the story in hardcover sometime upon completion, several years from now). The first installment begins with young Rusty, an outcast in his suburban Chicago elementary school, befriended solely by his Supergirl action figure until he meets new kid on the block and fellow comic nerd, Chalky White. Rusty's story is an uncomfortably vivid and uncompromising look into the life of a social outcast. Ultimately, Rusty Brown will run longer than Jimmy Corrigan, tracing Brown's life through adulthood, along with every excruciating moment of failure it brings.
The ACME Novelty Library series has been the most acclaimed comic book series of the last ten years, as well as one of the bestselling contemporary comics on the racks. This is only the second issue, however, that has been available to the general book trade, enabling booksellers to satisfy demand for Ware's work post-Jimmy Corrigan while Ware builds toward the next collection. The format also allows Ware to indulge us with many surprises as well, from Ware's faux-advertising sections and elaborate three-dimensional cut-out designs.
Author Biography: Chris Ware published his first comic strip in The Daily Texan, the student newspaper serving The University of Texas at Austin. He relocated to Chicago to attend the Art Institute in the late 1980s; he continues to reside there with his wife, Marnie. In his spare time, he creates The Ragtime Ephemeralist, a journal devoted to vintage ragtime music.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published December 12,2005
This edition
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64 pages, Hardcover
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December 12, 2005 by The ACME Novelty Library
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9781560975137
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156097513X
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English
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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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Like everything Chris Ware does, this books is meticulously illustrated and heart-breakingly plotted. Its a little too short to get to the level of depth of "Jimmy", but its a gem nonetheless.
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Mr. Chris Ware is a genius and should have won the Fiction Pulitzer in Fiction for Jimmy C TSBOE. Writes and draws emotively.
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love for its hints at my beloved "building"
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Rusty Brown is a great character. Chris Ware knows how to do pitch perfect pathetic characters.
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I think this is the start of the RUSTY BROWN serial, and so far it's a great one. The two story lines happening at the same time works great in the format he's chosen. blah!
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I’ve always had an appreciation for Chris Ware’s artwork. He has an innate skill for toying with the framing conventions of graphic novels/comics and precise linework that I have yet to see rivalled, but it took Rusty Brown to really win me over. It is probably because this story (which is still ongoing as part of the Acme Novelty Library) is the first of Ware's I've read in which I felt the connection between his technical brilliance and the human truth of his characters and stories. When that connection happens the feeling is profound and it reassures me that the graphic novel is indeed a valid artform. Rusty Brown is, to me, where Chris Ware strikes a wonderful balance between narrative trickery, quiet desperation, and desperate humor.
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This book made me cry, his drawings are so beautiful and unique. I would love to see Chris write a novel.
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