Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Two: 1995 - 2002 (Signed copy w/Bonus)

Ware, Chris

ISBN 10: 1897299184 / ISBN 13: 9781897299180

Published by U.S.A.: Drawn and Quarterly, 2007

About this Item

Scarce and desirable collectible. Sketches and diary pages in facsimile from the very talented Chris Ware Might be the only hand-signed volume two offered for sale.includes great candid photo of Chris Ware along with fellow artist/illustrator Charles Burns from event in Oak Park, IL. Seller Inventory # ABE-14599481725

Bibliographic Details

Title: Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Two: 1995 - ...

Publisher: U.S.A.: Drawn and Quarterly

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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. All in all, a necessary volume for fans of fine art, water-based media, and personal diatribe. This hardcover is attractively designed and easy to resell.

About the Author:

Cartoonist/designer Chris Ware is the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Quimby the Mouse, and the ACME Novelty Datebook. Ware was born in 1967, two years before Frank King's death.