The Acme Novelty Library #15

The Acme Novelty Library 15

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"[Chris] Ware is the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has ever known," says Dave Eggers. We suspect that Ware won't be picking up cudgels to defend this title. For one thing, he's too busy creating brilliantly funny and insightfully quirky alternative comic books. In this 15th addition to his Acme Novelty Library, Ware flips out stories of favorites like "Jimmy Corrigan," "Rocket Sam," and, of course, "Quimby the Mouse." Well-twisted Ware fans will enjoy the pull-out bonuses, especially the cut-out three-dimensional motion picture viewer.

32 pages, Paperback

First published December 15,2001

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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April 26,2025
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Oh, Chris Ware. I love your drawings, and some of your characters and stories are just so perfectly sad and real (Rusty Brown!). I hate your stupid tiny writing and the gigantic and awkward format of this particular comic collection. I mean, I understand what you are doing, I just find it kind of grating. I also don't like McSweeney's or The Toast, so a I recognize that the problem is not you, it's me. And yet, I still like reading your stuff, so keep doing your thing, and I'll keep reading it and half liking it. Love, Kristy.
April 26,2025
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This huge comic book could better be called 'Big book of terrible loneliness', because all comics deal with loneliness and tell about characters completely failing to connect with other people. All Chris Ware's usual suspects are present: Rocket Sam, Quimby the Mouse, Jimmy Corrigan, Rusty Brown and Big Tex. Of all these characters, Rusty Brown is easily the most appalling, and the comics devoted to him certainly don't invite to read more about this repulsive character. More entertaining are the comics devoted to a nameless future character in a series called 'Tales of Tomorrow'. Needless to say this world, one of endless advertising, is one of utter loneliness, too.
April 26,2025
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beyond the beauty of the book itself is the sadness of rusty brown. there is something about chris ware. even at his most nostalgic there is a lingering melancholy. like standing beneath a street light in winter with the footprints of the girl you loved trailing off in the snow.
April 26,2025
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Good god, this collection is hilarious...and moving, and the illustrations are nonpareil.
April 26,2025
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One of the funniest collections of things printed on paper, anywhere. A must have.
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