The Acme Novelty Library (Pantheon Graphic Library)

by Chris Ware

Hardcover, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

741.5973

Collection

Publication

Pantheon (2005), 108 pages

Description

What would happen if William Faulkner, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Eugene O'Neill drew masterful strips for their Sunday comics pages? This volume provides eye-tearingly beautiful depictions of longing, despair, melancholy, disappointment, bleakness, lethargy, abandonment, and relentless parental cruelty.

User reviews

LibraryThing member librarianbryan
The design work is beautiful, superior, every superlative you can imagine, but the how miserable we all are attitude of the content I can do without. Todd Solondz, David Foster Wallace, and Chris Ware all walk into a bar... the joke is on them. Mark Twain had more hope for humanity than this. I
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love myself. I love being alive. The R. Crumb worshipping, self loathing, misanthropic, stunted adolescent comics auteur crowd has wore itself thin with me.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2005

Physical description

108 p.; 15.25 inches

ISBN

0375422951 / 9780375422959
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