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― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Fantastic in short bursts; numbing in excess. My funds dried up at about the same time that Acme Novelty Library #8 came out, and it was a convenient dry spell, as the Jimmy Corrigan saga (& all the quotidian angst therein) was wearing me down.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

He's the best at what he does, and what he does ain't pretty.

Okay, it is actually pretty, but it makes you want to kill yourself.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I ask because I almost never read comics in any form (comic books, graphic novels, what have you), but I did read Jimmy Corrigan, and I read his page in the Chicago Reader every week. His weekly pages in the Reader are really interesting because he's willing to let it go for weeks with the plot barely moving at all. I like the fussiness and simplicity of his artwork, and his color work is really appealing to me too. He also owns the nearest comic store to me.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Love him.

― Josh Anomaly (josh_anomaly), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

"He also owns the nearest comic store to me. "

I did not know this. Which store?

I lived next door to him for a year, and I never saw him outside. Not once. I only knew his address, because he could sometimes bury it in the fine print of his books.

― Mike Dixon (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 25 July 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought he owned Quimby's but apparently I was mistaken.

I recently bought one of his little Acme Novelty Library comics, not one of the Jimmy Corrigan ones but an odd story about a potato man who keeps losing his eyes. Anyways, I got excited because the address that was inside the cover for the Acme Company is literally like a block away from my house, so I thought, cool, I live near Chris Ware. Then I realized that this comic was originally published in '94, so he probably doesn't live there anymore.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

He has a really strange, large head, though. I respect him for that.

― John Cei Douglas (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, if you find Acme #10, grab it. It's superfantastic and I never see it around anymore.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

i just discovered him

i read the Jimmy Corrigan story the other week, I thought it was beautiful on so many levels. i just ordered one of the acme novelty library books, how many are there?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Here's a Ware checklist from The Acme Novelty Warehouse. Three more issues of Acme Novelty Library have been published since this was last updated. If you don't want to go crazy buying up the complete works, you could probably do with the collected Jimmy Corrigan stories and the collected Quimby the Mouse -- then you can start fresh with the Rusty Brown stories. I think the Acme Novelty Library Datebook is pretty swell, too.

― ng-unit, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

The Rusty Brown stories have been published? I haven't seen them in my zine/comic shop (I haven't seen any new Ware there since the Quimby the Mouse book).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Also, if you can find ACME Library #10, that one is my favorite.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Rusty Brown is in Acme Novelty #16. I didn't mean to imply that they had already been collected into some giant epic hardcover!

― ng-unit, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

It is my understanding that Everybody Loves Chris Ware.

http://yellowlight.scratchspace.net/comics/elcw/chrisware.html

― Occam, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

The Rusty Brown stories have been published? I haven't seen them in my zine/comic shop (I haven't seen any new Ware there since the Quimby the Mouse book).

Aside from the long Rusty novel being serialised from ACME #16 on, the Book Of Jokes/Report To Shareholders massive hardcover from this year collects loads or all of the one-page Rusty & Chalky strips. Also since the Quimby book: his curation of and contributions to McSweeneys #13, and possibly D&Q's sketchbook, the Acme Novelty Datebook.

Acme #16 also contains a very few of the early Building Stories instalments, but formatted such to make them even more difficult to read than in the NYT.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

I am not looking forward to any collection of Branford the Bee strips.

― ng-unit, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, I have not seen ACME #16. I haven't seen any ACMEs since the final Corrigan installment. Reading Frenzy has some 'splaining to do.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 10:18 (twenty years ago)

I think it shipped last week of December. Many fine establishments are offering it online. You can also go the Amazon route!

― ng-unit, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

mcsweeney's #13 is one of my favouritest books ever

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

(Actually Acme #15 was after Corrigan finished, too! Chris really needs the Report To Shareholders collection, he's five years behind!)

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I read the new ACME at Barnes & Noble over the weekend. (I'm a little too broke right now to drop $16 on it...)

It was frustrating - there were some bits scattered throughout that I liked, and the art was nice as per usual, but I'm just really annoyed by his insistence on pursuing the comics about comics/comics about comics fans/comics about relentlessly miserable outcasts thing. Surely there's a better use of his talents!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

write what you know!

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

yeah i just read the mcsweeneys 13 too, it's delightful.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

I am sad.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 5 January 2006 07:36 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

The guy is a total genius. One of my simplest pleasures in this life was to sit next to a roaring coal fire reading Jimmy Corrigan. I have since moved house a few times and do not have a fire but I think it is time to get out Jimmy again.

― Clusterhead, Friday, 29 July 2011 09:34 (fourteen years ago)

really enjoyed what I have of the latest Rusty Brown series but am too poor to keep up :(

― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 29 July 2011 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

it's TWO YEARS between issues, if you put 20c a week in a jar you'll be ready each time a new one comes out

― naked hdsl (sic), Friday, 29 July 2011 23:08 (fourteen years ago)

the last one was easily one of the best comics i have ever read. i am almost frightened by him at this point. but i'm glad to be alive when work like this is being made.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 31 July 2011 00:59 (fourteen years ago)

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