{"title":"Books by Chris Ware","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780224063975","title":"Jimmy Corrigan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJimmy Corrigan\u003c\/i\u003e has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, \u003ci\u003eJimmy Corrigan\u003c\/i\u003e is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**ONE OF THE \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201538031794,"sku":"9780224063975","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780224063975_8bc60baf-2eb9-48c6-ad6c-f9b5fd42184e.jpg?v=1786012934"},{"product_id":"9781770467347","title":"The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe third and final installment of the artist's facsimile sketchbook series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter over fifteen years deferral, delay and dawdling, the ink-and-paper cheerleader F. C. Ware finally succumbs to imaginary public pressure by concluding his tiresome experiment in reader trust with the third and final volume of secret notebooks and sketches spanning over thirty-seven years of bus rides, airport delays and telephone hold music. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExquisitely crafted fine art doodles, hand-selected meanderings and artisanal rewritings of personal conflict are scattered throughout comic strips unconsciously revealing private hostilities and unflattering portraits of public transportation riders, the whole carefully cleansed of any impugnable or litigious tracery. As a professional adult-picture-book drawer and regular contributor to the New Yorker, Le Monde and the Illinois Cook County Assessor’s office, Mr. Ware’s work in these pages secures his reputation as an reliably unreliable self-narrator, willing to say or write anything to win petty disputes and imagined squabbles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e208 full-color pages augmented by annotations, introduction and a professional apology, with paper boards and cloth spine of misleading demureness to conceal its native prurience.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44583177027762,"sku":"9781770467347","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770467347_4450d5ae-e0ba-4b98-8bd5-dd270c009b04.jpg?v=1786024274"},{"product_id":"9780224078139","title":"Rusty Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover the long-awaited new book from the author of \u003ci\u003eJimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBuilding Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated as parodies, but whom now I wanted to humanize... amidst a setting of memories of my Omaha childhood and Nebraska upbringing.' (Chris Ware, \u003ci\u003eMonograph\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, twenty years later, Ware is publishing Rusty Brown in book form. It is, he says, 'a fully interactive, full-colour 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.' The six characters are Rusty Brown himself, a shy schoolkid obsessed with superheroes, his father 'Woody' Brown, an eccentric teacher at Rusty's school, Chalky White, another schoolboy, Alison White, Chalky's sister, Jason Lint, an older boy who bullies Rusty and Chalky and fancies Alison, and the boys' teacher, Joanne Cole. Ware tells each of their stories in minute detail (or as he puts it, 'From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed'), producing another masterwork of the comics form that is at once achingly beautiful, heartbreakingly sad and painfully funny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A treasure trove of invention... With its awe-inspiring exploration of regret and ageing, anxiety and ennui... Rusty Brown is a human document of rare richness' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                        'Chris Ware is one of the great writers of our generation...I spent 20 minutes reading the cover of \u003ci\u003eRusty Brown.\u003c\/i\u003e Buy it. Buy all his work. Make your life larger.' Mark Haddon, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227159638389,"sku":"9780224078139","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780224078139_aa5ee873-aad2-468e-ade3-53b6d6321d4e.jpg?v=1786012955"},{"product_id":"9781681379562","title":"The Lexicon of Comicana","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new edition of \u003ci\u003eBeetle Bailey\u003c\/i\u003e creator Mort Walker’s riotous and immensely influential handbook for drawing and reading cartoons—a book that’s both a parody of humorless how-to guides and a genuine (and genuinely instructive) ode to the art of making comics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a cartoon, what do you call the sweat drops shooting off a character’s head? Those are “Plewds.” What about when you see a character wagging their tongue out of their mouth? Oh, that’s a “Protusilation.” How about the lines coming off a freshly baked pie? That’s a “Waftarom.” This sort of playful comics nomenclature abounds in \u003ci\u003eThe Lexicon of Comicana\u003c\/i\u003e, the revered 1980 cartooning handbook authored by Mort Walker, creator of the legendary daily comic strip \u003ci\u003eBeetle Bailey\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth a send-up of lofty how-to-draw books and a sincere and hilarious love letter to the art of drawing cartoons, the \u003ci\u003eLexicon\u003c\/i\u003e is a joyously exhaustive cheat sheet to key comics visuals that has been referenced and treasured by generations of cartoonists. This new edition includes a foreword by Chris Ware and a meticulous appendix by Mort’s son Brian Walker, who delves deep into the visual language of comics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the help of \u003ci\u003eThe Lexicon of Comicana\u003c\/i\u003e, you’ll come away a better, wiser, richer, and funnier artist. Plus, you’ll learn what a “Morf” is—Mort’s favorite part.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303294382453,"sku":"9781681379562","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681379562_06bd00e7-d62e-48f3-ac4a-c9f83087a81c.jpg?v=1786024635"},{"product_id":"9781896597669","title":"The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume One","description":"Acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware reveals the outtakes of his genius in these intimate, imaginative, and whimsical sketches collected from the years during which he completed his award-winning graphic novel \u003ci\u003eJimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth \u003c\/i\u003e(Pantheon). His novel not only won the \u003ci\u003eManchester Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e First Novel prize in 2001 but it has sold over 100,000 copies. This book is as much a companion volume to Jimmy Corrigan --one of the great crossover success stories-- as a tremendous art collection from of one of America's most interesting and popular graphic artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris Ware has a passion for drawing that is surprisingly wide-ranging in style and subject. This book surprises the reader on every page with its sense of spontaneous vision. Architectural drawings from Chicago and interplanetary robot comics collide with cruelly doodled human figures and quietly troubling studies of the still life. A must for people with a passion for modern design and old-fashioned style.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313103057269,"sku":"9781896597669","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781896597669_e6c08000-5727-452e-a8f0-55b5be42bb2a.jpg?v=1786029294"},{"product_id":"the-acme-novelty-library-21","title":"The Acme Novelty Library #21","description":"\u003cb\u003eArtist, writer and ink pundit F. C. 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A remedy for those weary of regular stage-four cultural botox injections and a last hurrah for sensitive bipeds who have fallen through the cracks of life and who would prefer to stay home with a booklet of cheerfully colored picture stories, it’s what all the kids are talking about.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree (3) securely bound and unaccountably legible 24-page saddle-stitched comic books accompany a large foldout comic strip newspaper section, the whole conveniently compacted into an attractively designed keepsake folio allowing for easy disposal and\/or tindering in the event of sudden societal collapse. Alice White, The Last Saturday, and a cast of unnamed and almost completely unfamiliar protagonists are all here in little hand-drawn boxes to keep you company on that upcoming rainy afternoon when you watch your hopes, dreams and perhaps even your country go up in smoke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnboarding everything Mr. Ware and his team of vendors and their internationally-recognized brand have honed for years to esthetic lethality,\u003ci\u003e The ACME Novelty Library 21\u003c\/i\u003e is certain to be this season’s biggest hit, should the season last long enough.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507740811637,"sku":"9781770469174","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770469174.jpg?v=1787042880"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-chris-ware.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}