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Loading... The ACME Novelty Library : Annual Report to Shareholders and Rainy Day Saturday Afternoon Fun Book (2005)by Chris Ware
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Not suitable for young children, adult content. Despite this book being 15 inches tall, some of the print is extremely tiny - I had to use a magnifying glass to read some of the text. Still a nice addition to my Chris Ware collection, complete with fake dark humourous advertisements, a glow in the dark star chart, Chris Ware's cast of characters: Jimmy Corrigan, "Tales of Tomorrow", Rocket Sam, Quimby the Mouse, the Super-man, Sparky the cat, Big Tex, and Rusty Brown, and a and cut-out paper library. You really shouldn't laugh at the colourful presentation of despair, disappointment, desolation, idleness, melancholy, lust, abandonment, and unabated parental cruelty. ( ) The design work is beautiful, superior, every superlative you can imagine, but the how miserable we all are attitude of the content I can do without. Todd Solondz, David Foster Wallace, and Chris Ware all walk into a bar... the joke is on them. Mark Twain had more hope for humanity than this. I love myself. I love being alive. The R. Crumb worshipping, self loathing, misanthropic, stunted adolescent comics auteur crowd has wore itself thin with me. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesThe Acme Novelty Library (7, 15)
What would happen if William Faulkner, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Eugene O'Neill drew masterful strips for their Sunday comics pages? This volume provides eye-tearingly beautiful depictions of longing, despair, melancholy, disappointment, bleakness, lethargy, abandonment, and relentless parental cruelty. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)741.5973Arts & recreation Design & related arts Drawing and drawings Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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