Chris Ware Illustrated (7 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). 1st. Tall 8vo, 341 pp.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Ware, Chris (illustrator). Near Fine Condition. No dust jacket. ACME Novelty Library Volume 5, Issue 9 Winter 1997. Stapled pamphlet with color wrappers and colored pages. No marks on the text block. No marks of previous ownership or inscriptions. A very nice copy! ; Issue 9; Cartoons; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Chris Ware (illustrator). Hard Cover. Drawn & Quarterly 2003/2007. 1st Edition. Limited Edition. Book condition: NM - Near Mint. Part Colour illustrations. Volumes 1 and 2 of Chris Ware's The Acme Novelty Date Book. The Acme Novelty Date Book: Volume 1: 1986-1995 (9781896597669) The "first (and only) printing" of Chris Ware's first "Acme Novelty Date Book" now numbering three volumes. A thick collection of "Sketches and Diary Pages in Facsimile." The stated print run of this "first (and only) printing" is 2000 copies. There was a second printing--a "Second Inexplicable Edition"--in 2013. 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 Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon). His novel not only won the Manchester Guardian 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. Chris 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. The Acme Novelty Date Book: Volume 2: 1995-2002 (1897299184) 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 clichéd and outmoded insights from the late twentieth century. Working directly in pen and ink, watercolor, and white-out whenever he makes a mistake, Ware has cannily edited out all legally sensitive and personally incriminating material from his private journals, carefully recomposing each page to simulate the appearance of an ordered mind and established aesthetic directive. All phone numbers, references to ex-girlfriends, "false starts," and embarrassing experiments with unfamiliar drawing media have been generously excised to present the reader with the most pleasant and colorful sketchbook reading experience available. Included are Ware's frustrated doodles for his book covers, angry personal assaults on friends, half-finished comic strips, and lengthy and tiresome fulminations of personal disappointments both social and sexual, as well as his now-beloved drawings of the generally miserable inhabitants of the city of Chicago. 208 pages. Size: 7" x 9" (180mm x 240mm). ISBN: 9781896597669. (5 ACMEDATEBOOK12).

Hardback. Condition: As New. Chris Ware (illustrator). Hard Cover. Jonathan Cape 2012. Limited Edition. Book condition: As New. Full Colour illustrations. From the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth comes one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. One of the most important pieces of art I have ever experienced." The New Republic With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it's reassuringperhaps even necessaryto have something to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of maturitywhile discovering a protagonist wondering if she'll ever move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you're feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in somewhat damaged form during REM sleep). A pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on the back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set down, forget or completely lose any number of its contents within the walls of an average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Building Stories collects a decade's worth of work, with dozens of "never-before-published" pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse, filthy or just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable periodical). This copy is As New, still sealed in plastic. 246 pages. Size: 12" x 17" (300mm x 430mm). ISBN: 9780375424335. (2.5 BUILDINGSTORIES201).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Frank King (illustrator). Hard Cover. Sunday Press Books 2008. Book condition: VF - Very Fine. Full Colour illustrations. Sunday Press Books presents a masterpiece in comic art by Frank King. Collected for the first time - the best Gasoline Alley Sunday comics, starting from the very first Sunday in 1921, reprinted in the original size and colours. 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. If you are interested in the development of this unique American art form, or simply love beautiful comics, this volume is a must for your collection. Designed by Chris Ware with an Introduction by Jeet Heer. 96 pages. Size: 12" x 21" (310mm x 535mm). ISBN: 9780976888529. (4 SWWAS).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Chris Ware (illustrator). Hard Cover. Jonathan Cape 2012. Signed. Limited Edition. Book condition: NM - Near Mint. Full Colour illustrations. From the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth comes one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. One of the most important pieces of art I have ever experienced." The New Republic. With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it's reassuringperhaps even necessaryto have something to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of maturitywhile discovering a protagonist wondering if she'll ever move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you're feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in somewhat damaged form during REM sleep). A pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on the back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set down, forget or completely lose any number of its contents within the walls of an average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Building Stories collects a decade's worth of work, with dozens of "never-before-published" pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse, filthy or just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable periodical). This copy is signed and inscribed by Chris Ware! 246 pages. Size: 12" x 17" (300mm x 430mm). ISBN: 9780375424335. (2.5 BUILDINGSTORIES101).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Chris Ware (illustrator). Soft Cover. Fantagraphics Books 2001. 1st Edition. Limited Edition. Book condition: VF - Very Fine. Full Colour illustrations. Chris Ware is the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has ever known", says Dave Eggers. We suspect that Ware won't be picking up cudgels to defend this title. For one thing, he's too busy creating brilliantly funny and insightfully quirky alternative comic books. In this 15th addition to his Acme Novelty Library, Ware flips out stories of favorites like "Jimmy Corrigan," "Rocket Sam," and, of course, "Quimby the Mouse." Well-twisted Ware fans will enjoy the pull-out bonuses, especially the cut-out three-dimensional motion picture viewer. Acme Novelty Library is a comic book series created by Chicago cartoonist Chris Ware. Its first issue appeared in 1993. Published from 1994 by Fantagraphics Books and later self-published. 32 pages. Size: 11" x 18" (275mm x 460mm). (1.2 ACMETLON01).