Chris Ware Books

This book presents a striking experiment in publishing, exploring the art and literary world's growing acceptance of the empathetic doodle through the work of Chris Ware, a writer and cartoonist known for his challenging picture stories. For three decades, Ware has tested the patience of readers and art enthusiasts alike with his complex narratives featured in esteemed publications like The New Yorker and The New York Times, as well as in prominent art institutions such as the MCA Chicago and the Whitney Museum. The book is organized chronologically, prioritizing Ware's personal anecdotes over traditional critical analysis, offering an intimate glimpse into his life from a target of athletic upperclassmen to a stay-at-home dad and agoraphobic graphic novelist. It includes a selection of personal photos alongside rarely seen early works and new paintings, enriched by high-quality scans of original art that showcase his creative process, mistakes, and university-era projects. This compilation reflects a broader cultural shift toward accepting a decline in quality in the arts since Ware's emergence. With its luxurious design, crafted from premium materials, this hefty volume is sure to challenge even the most dedicated comics enthusiasts.

Presents an illustrated tale, told in various books and folded sheets, about the residents in a three-story Chicago apartment building, including a lonely single woman, a couple who are growing to despise each other, and an elderly landlady -- Source other than Library of Congress

A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in the making: the new epic masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. Rusty Brown is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of six complete consciousnesses on a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.

The legendary Norwegian pop artist Pushwagner’s scathing comics masterpiece—lost for decades, and never before published in the U.S.—is an epic vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and endless distant war. “CLEAN BOMB THE HAPPY-HAPPY WAY,” blares the morning paper. “Heil Hilton!” barks an overlord on the news. Welcome to Soft City. Now don’t be late for work. This NYRC edition is a giant-sized hardcover extra-thick paper and spot-color throughout.

Jimmy Corrigan - the creation of artist Chris Ware - is a boy with the face of a disappointed old man. This graphic novel tells the poignant story of a shy character and his relationship with his absent father. The book collects Ware's comic strips in hardback format, with a fold-out jacket.

The popularity of the graphic genre continues to rage, and The Best American Comics is a diverse, exciting annual selection for fans and newcomers alike. The inaugural volume includes stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web.Contributors include Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Kim Deitch, Jaime Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Joe Sacco, and Lynda Barry—and unique discoveries such as Justin Hall, Esther Pearl Watson, and Lilli Carré.