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 Acme Novelty Library - Chris Ware
Description: ISBN 0224077023 / Author: Chris Ware / Genre: Graphic Novels / Comics Newest Review: ... and this brings me to one of the frustrations of Acme: most issues include a certain amount of mainly-text pages - these are ... more  ... usually parodies of American magazine features such as small ads, novelty catalogues etc; and this is mainly printed in an excruciatingly tiny typeface! After a session reading the text pages of an issue of Acme, my eyes are usually threatening to sue me, and a headache is seldom far away! One other technical feature, which I love, is the unpredictable variation in size of the Acme issues: the page size varies from 14x17cm (issue 10) to a staggering 25x40cm (the very desirable issue 7). Likewise the page count varies ...more |
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Format: paperback, Publisher: Fantagraphics, ISBN: 1560974559
The casual reader can be forgiven if, after reading cartoonist Ch ... |
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Format: hardback, Publisher: Vintage, ISBN: 022407265X
The casual reader can be forgiven if, after reading cartoonist Ch ... |
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Acme Novelty Library - Chris Ware: The Beauty Of Tedium (764 words)
by pvincent - written on 05/07/00 (Very useful, 42 readings)
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There has never been a comics series quite like Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library. On a sheer technical level, Ware's cartooning, draughtsmanship and page design are simply stunning. There's one (of many!) memorable page where if you look at the page as a whole you can see that it shows a house. However, each panel of the page (which break down the house into squares) shows that portion of the house at a different point in time, from its construction to its dereliction. You can dwell on this page for minutes at a time, reading between the lines and coming to sense something of the history of the house. And that's just one page! Ware uses ...
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