Chris Ware, "Building Stories"

[mongoose]

For those interested in graphic novels and associated ephemera, please consider Chris Ware's "Building Stories" -

Building Stories: Chris Ware: 9780375424335: Amazon.com: Books

 

Building Stories: Chris Ware: 9780375424335: Amazon.com: Books

A good survey of Ware's work is at -

A Triumph of the Comic-Book Novel by Gabriel Winslow-Yost | The New York Review of Books

From which I extract: “The raw core of human experience,” Ware declared back in the 1990s, “is loneliness. There’s always that sense of isolation, whether you’re with someone or not.” Throughout Building Stories, Ware’s attention to the awkward physicality, the constant humiliations and cruelties of human existence is as precise and as brutally funny as it is in his previous work.

My copy arrived recently and I consider it a remarkable bargain at just over $30.

[Michael]

Chris Ware's hype on Building Stories is well-deserved. Although I know people have mixed opinions of Jimmy Corrigan, I think it is brilliant and that Ware is a master of the medium. For some reason I always pair Scott McCloud's tripartite Understanding, Making, and Reinventing Comics with Ware's work. I think this is just my own idiosyncratic mind.