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The Acme Novelty Library
Quimby the Mouse
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Cleverly appropriated old-fashioned animation imagery and advertising styles of the 1920s and 1930s are put to use in Quimby the Mouse at the service of modern vignettes of angst and existentialism. As this cartoon silhouette of a mouse ignominiously suffers at every turn, the spaces between the panels create despair and a Beckett-like rhythm of hope deceived and deferred (but never quite extinguished), buoying Quimby from page to page.
Like Ware's first book, Jimmy Corrigan, Quimby is saturated with Ware's genius, including consistently amazing graphics, insanely perfectionist production values, cut-out-and-assemble paper projects, and the formal complexity of his narratives that have earned him the reputation as one of the most prodigious artists of his generation.
This collection includes issues 2 and 4 of the comic book series with additional material.
Like Ware's first book, Jimmy Corrigan, Quimby is saturated with Ware's genius, including consistently amazing graphics, insanely perfectionist production values, cut-out-and-assemble paper projects, and the formal complexity of his narratives that have earned him the reputation as one of the most prodigious artists of his generation.
This collection includes issues 2 and 4 of the comic book series with additional material.
69 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1994
This edition
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69 pages, Paperback
- Published
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February 1, 2010 by JONATHAN CAPE
- ISBN
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9780224072656
- ASIN
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022407265X
- Language
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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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Dense, detailed, heartbreaking on every damn page. This graphic novel/compilation takes a lot of patience, pretty good eyesight and a great propensity for teeny tiny boxes full of emotional plot development.
Ware is single-handedly pushing American comic book storytelling to some other plane of existence. Some strips have no characters, just narration. Other strips have no narration, just images. And everything is infused with the past - family memories, faulty recall, alter egos that may have never existed, and of course, those strange mail-away offers in the back of vintage comic books.
Everything from the past is still at play in the present.
Chris Ware blows my mind.
Ware is single-handedly pushing American comic book storytelling to some other plane of existence. Some strips have no characters, just narration. Other strips have no narration, just images. And everything is infused with the past - family memories, faulty recall, alter egos that may have never existed, and of course, those strange mail-away offers in the back of vintage comic books.
Everything from the past is still at play in the present.
Chris Ware blows my mind.
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Terribly sad and intense.
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too too weird. liked the gasoline alley-type comic though.
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quimby rules you.
that is all
that is all
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If you want to complete your Chris Ware collection pick this up. But this is not the place to start for a good look at his work. This collects two early issues of the Acme Novelty Library, ones which focus on the titular Quimby the Mouse. There isn't much a story in either of these. it's best to just read it to admire the artistic talent, which does not disappoint.
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Move over Mickey, Jerry, and Speedy.. Quimby has arrived. Another absolutely hilarious book by Ware ... does he do anything that's not?
I actually have an extra copy of this book, so if you're really nice (and beer bribes never hurt) I'll give you the extra. I'm just holding onto it to find a home I deem worthy, that would appreciate such a masterpiece. Oh, okay.. for a good beer I'd probably give it to anyone, but, still, it's a masterpiece.
I actually have an extra copy of this book, so if you're really nice (and beer bribes never hurt) I'll give you the extra. I'm just holding onto it to find a home I deem worthy, that would appreciate such a masterpiece. Oh, okay.. for a good beer I'd probably give it to anyone, but, still, it's a masterpiece.
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