Rusty Brown (Pantheon Graphic Library)

Ware, Chris

ISBN 10: 0375424326 / ISBN 13: 9780375424328

Published by Pantheon, New York, 2019

About this Item

New York: Pantheon, 2019. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Quarter orange cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A clean, tight, unread copy. Publisher's original price ($35.00) printed on front jacket panel. Jacket unfolds into a large illustrated poster, as issued. Small remainder dot to upper edge. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Large octavo, unpaginated. "Rusty Brown" is a graphic novel exploring loneliness, memory, and the passage of time through interwoven stories set in a Nebraska private school. Chris Ware is an American cartoonist and illustrator, winner of multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards, best known for "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth." This is his second full-length graphic novel.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rusty Brown (Pantheon Graphic Library)
• Publisher: Pantheon, New York
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375424326
• ISBN 13: 9780375424328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Graphic Novels

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Synopsis

A major graphic novel event more than 18 years in progress: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories.

Rusty Brown is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of three complete consciousnesses in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.

About the Author

CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged to be the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and fourteen-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by The Times (London) in 2009. Building Stories was named a Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year in 2012 by both The New York Times and Time magazine. Ware is an irregular contributor to The New Yorker, and his original drawings have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in piles behind his worktable in Oak Park, Illinois. In 2016 he was featured in the PBS documentary series Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, and in 2017 an eponymous monograph of his work was published by Rizzoli.