Acme Novelty Datebook [Date book]: Sketches and Diary Pages in Facsimile 1986-1995, Volume One

Chris Ware

ISBN 10: 1896597661 / ISBN 13: 9781896597669

Published by Drawn and Quarterly, 2003

About this Item

First printing. Slight scratch on front cover, couple of corners a bit bumped, else fine. No dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by the author and dated 2007 on the faux bookplate on the recto of the rear free endpaper.

Seller Inventory # 1360

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Acme Novelty Datebook [Date book]: Sketches and Diary Pages in Facsimile 1986-1995, Volume One
• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1896597661
• ISBN 13: 9781896597669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Chris Ware is a writer and artist and has contributed graphic fiction and thirty-two covers to The New Yorker since 1999. The author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, which won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, and Building Stories, which was chosen as a Top 10 fiction book by both the Times and Time in 2012, his most recent Rusty Brown was finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein award and named among the New York Times’ top 100 Books of 2019. His work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York and the Galerie Martel in Paris. In 2021, Ware received the Grand Prix de la Ville d’Angoulême and a solo retrospective of his work was presented at the Centre Pompidou in 2022, traveling on to venues in Switzerland, Italy and Holland; it will conclude at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in 2025.