CHRIS WARE BONANZA!
NOW IN STOCK!
The Acme Novelty Library Volume 18 1/2
(18.5)
(aka “The New
Yorker” portfolio)
by Chris Ware
Chris
sez:
This print portfolio, somewhat hedgingly entitled The ACME
Novelty Library, No. 18.5, contains all four “Thanksgiving” covers
drawn by cartoonist and cultural commentator F. C. Ware for the
November 27th, 2006 issue of The New Yorker, as well as the
additional fifth
comic strip which heretofore only appeared in digital form, all
carefully printed in full color at an oversized 15" x 20” size on
heavy paper and folded in half for easy recycling. As if this
wasn’t dreary enough, included is a new supplementary folded comic
strip, measuring 16” x 11,” which is also folded in half.
The consumer is asked to carefully weigh
whether purchase of this object is truly necessary, and to act
accordingly.
NOW IN
STOCK!
ACME Novelty Datebook: Volume Two, 1995-1999
by Chris Ware
Chris
also sez:
Straggling
behind the mild 2003 success of cartoonist Chris Ware's first facsimile
collection of his miscellaneous sketches, notes, and adolescent
fantasies arrives this second volume, updating weary readers with the
last ten years of Ware's clichéd and outmoded insights.
Working
directly in pen and ink, watercolor, and white-out whenever he makes a
mistake, Ware has cannily edited out all legally sensitive and
personally incriminating material from his private journals, carefully
recomposing each page to simulate the appearance of an ordered mind and
established aesthetic directive. All phone numbers, references to
ex-girlfriends, "false starts," and embarrassing experiments with
unfamiliar drawing media have been generously excised to present the
reader with the most pleasant and colorful sketchbook reading
experience available. Included are Ware's frustrated doodles for his
book covers, angry personal assaults on friends, half-finished comic
strips, lengthy and tiresome fulminations of personal disappointments
both social and sexual, as well as his now-beloved drawings of the
generally miserable inhabitants of the city of Chicago. All in all, a
necessary volume for fans of fine art, water-based media, and personal
diatribe. Hardcover, attractively designed, and easy to resell.
ISBN: 9781897299180
retail price - $39.95
copacetic
price
- $34.95
Also available: Acme Novelty Datebook, Volume One
now in
stock!
ACME Novelty
Library #18
by Chris Ware
another
thing Chris sez:
In keeping with his
athletic goal of issuing a volume of his occasionally lauded ACME
series once every new autumn, volume 18 finds cartoonist Chris Ware
abandoning the engaging serialization of his "Rusty Brown" and instead
focusing upon his ongoing and more experimentally grim narrative,
"Building Stories."
Collecting pages unseen except in obscure alternative weekly
periodicals and sophisticated expensive coffee table magazines, The
ACME Novelty Library #18 re-introduces the characters which New
York Times
readers found "dry" and "deeply depressing" when one chapter of the
work (not included here) was presented in its pages during 2005 and
2006. Set in a Chicago apartment building more or less in the year
2000, the stories move from the straightforward to the mnemonically
complex, invading character's memories and personal ambitions with a
text point size likely unreadable to human beings over the age of 45.
Reformatted to accommodate this different material, readers will be
pleased by the volume's vertical shape and tasteful design, which,
unlike Ware's earlier volumes, should discreetly blend into any stack
or shelf of real books.
ISBN: 9781897299173
retail price - $17.95
copacetic
price
- $15.95
And, finally --
The Chriz Ware Bonanza Super Special:
All three items
-- Acme Novelty Library #18, #18.5 AND the Acme Novelty Datebook,
Volume
Two --
for one very
special price.
retail price - $89.90
copacetic
price
- $69.95
prices and
availability
current as of 14 July 2009