Chris Ware, the indie author/artist responsible for the highly acclaimed JIMMY CORRIGAN: THE SMARTEST KID ON EARTH, showcases his mordant, satiric humor in this handsome, oversized volume, which collects various one-page cartoons and odds and ends from Ware's comic book series the Acme Novelty Library and intersperses them with new material. Black ...
In the tradition of Art Spiegelman's "Maus" comes "Jimmy Corrigan", a comic book masterpiece seven years in the making by one of the medium's brightest young stars. It's "Gasoline Alley" as written by Dickens and Joyce. Color illustrations throughout.
This cutting-edge collection is just right for fans as well as those who are new to the hobby of comics. Contributors include Lynda Barry, R. and Aline Crumb, Kim Deitch, Gilbert Hernandez, Seth, and Art Spiegelman. Older teens.
A one-mouse theater of the absurd, this graphic novel by the author of "Jimmy Corrigan" employs cleverly appropriate old-fashioned imagery and advertising styles of the 1920s and 1930s. Illustrations, some in color.
For five years Chris Ware has been drawing amazingly innovative 'comic strips' about a character called Jimmy Corrigan - a boy with the face of a disappointed old man. Here for the first time Ware's strips are assembled in a beautiful hardback, every inch of which, including an extraordinary fold-out jacket, has been designed by Chris Ware. Jimmy ...
Sunday Press Books presents a masterpiece in comic art by Frank King. Collected for the first time, here are the best Gasoline Alley Sunday comics, starting from the very first Sunday in 1921. King's innovations in art, layout and storytelling brought a new warmth and style to the medium at the dawn of the Golden Age of newspaper comic strips. ...
Generally acknowledged by critics as the best comic strip of the 20th century, Krazy Kat follows the wacky adventures of Krazy and Ignatz Mouse. This volume, the first in a series, collects the strips from 1925 and 1926.
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 is all comics. It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, and on and on. The issue also includes essays from Michael Chabon, Ira ...
In this third volume of the much-praised Walt and Skeezix reprint series, the domestic side of "Gasoline Alley "receives full play. An old flame comes to visit Walt, with an eye toward marriage. Meanwhile, Walt pines for Mrs. Blossom, the neighborhood widow. Out of these entanglements, a long engagement and wedding ensue. The eighty-page ...
The penultimate teen issue of the "ACME Novelty Library" features a new chapter from the electrifying experimental narrative "Rusty Brown," which examines the life, work, and teaching techniques of one of the series' central real-life protagonists, W.K. Brown. Full color throughout.
Cartoonist and professional sentimentalist Chris Ware returns with his 17th issue, continuing with the second half of the introduction to his graphic novel "Rusty Brown."
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 Ware's cliched and outmoded insights from the late twentieth century. Working directly in pen and ink, watercolor, and white-out ...
This book is a profound collection of Aleksandar Zograf's comics and correspondences during the war in Serbia. It captures the essence of life during wartime, seen from the apartment window of one who was there at ground zero - the moral ambiguities of war, the horrific reality, the humanity. This volume includes Zograf's entire e-mail ...
Continuing the award-winning "Krazy Kat" Sunday reprints. George Herriman integrated full spectacular color into Krazy Kat in June, 1935. The gorgeous evolution continues in this third color volume, which includes the Sunday strips from all of 1941 and 1942. The color format opens the floodgates for a massive amount of spectacular rare color art ...
A perfect match of form and content, "Storeyville" was originally published in 1995 as a 40-page tabloid newspaper. Now rare, it was printed in black and white, along with a set of three muted tones ranging from sandy yellow to deep sepia, and it described the arc of a youthful adventure that took its protagonist, Will, from Pittsburgh, ...
Topping out at 416 pages, "American Illustration 26" promises to deliver even more of what design professionals, artists and students desire from this influential annual juried illustration collection. Not only does the volume consistently serve up the most innovative projects from the illustration world--including previously unpublished personal ...
Almost as famous as the race itself, the Kentucky Derby party is a celebrated rite of spring. With its roots in the heart of horse country, the Derby party has a rich history in Kentucky. Horse owners and breeders fete their guests with extravagant dinners, top-class entertainment, and free-flowing libations. Derby party fever has swept the ...
A young adult's clear and friendly introduction to the Church's teachings on sexuality and love cohabitation and the use of contraceptives. Stresses the dignity of each person.
One of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Chris Ware's epic story traces the lives of four generations of lonely, emotionally impaired everymen against the backdrop of Chicago's urban transformation over the course of the twentieth century. Winner of the American Book Award in 2001.
This newest edition features the first serial installment of "Rusty Brown," Ware's first major lengthy "narrative indulgence" since his Jimmy Corrigan graphic novel. Full color.
One of the first specialist warships, the bomb vessel was a floating siege engine carrying huge shell-firing mortars for the purposes of bombarding stationary targets, such as coastal towns, fortifications or harbours. For its time, it was a complex and high-tech weapons system, and was widely used by the British in every conflict between 1689 and ...
Born the son of George Byng, a favorite of the king and himself an admiral and member of the admiralty board (and later First Lord of the Admiralty), John Byng seemed destined for a shining career in the Royal Navy. He saw his first fleet action at Cape Passaro, the elder Byng's finest hour, as a Captain's Servant, aged just 14. He qualified as a ...
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