Monograph - Chris Ware

This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.

Jimmy Corrigan

Graphic novelsThe comic strips of Chris Ware are collected in this graphic novel, which celebrates the life of Jimmy Corrigan, a boy with a face like a disappointed old man. "A comic book with the soul of a literary novel" The New Yorker.

Jimmy Corrigan : The smartest kid on earth

Un classique dans l'oeuvre de Chris Ware  que cet ACME Novelty Company qui propose  aux consommateurs divers produits, aussi  futiles  qu'improbables, labellisés  ACME. 
Cet ouvrage  y rassemble les meilleures  histoires, mais aussi un florilège de publicités  et produits divers  ACME, pour l'édification  du consommateur et de l'homme moderne.

The acme novelty library

Utterly eschewing the general bonhomie surrounding the newly-minted contemporary regard for the comic strip medium as a language of complicated personal expression and artistic sophistication, professional colorist and award-winning letterer F. C. Ware returns to the book trade with "The ACME Novelty Library," a hardcover distillation of all his surviving one-page cartoon jokes with which he tuckpointed the holes of his regular comic book periodical over the past decade.Sometimes claimed to be his "best work" by those who really don't know any better, this definitive congestion of stories of the future, the old west, and even of modern life nonetheless tries to stay interesting by including a luminescent map of the heavens, a chart of the general structure of the universe, assorted cut-out activitites, and a complete history of The ACME Novelty Company itself, decorated by rare photographs, early business ventures, not to mention the smallest example of a Comic Strip ever before offered to the general public.All in all, it will likely prove a rather mild disappointment, but at least it catches the light in a nice way and may force a smile here and there before being shelved for the next generation's ultimate disregard and/or disposal.

Acme

Quimby the Mouse, chef-d'oeuvre de jeunesse de l'Américain Chris Ware, est aussi son livre le plus expérimental et intemporel. Son adaptation en français par L'ASSOCIATION s'est vue qualifiée d'"incredible", "flabbergasting" et "100% perfect" par M. Ware lui-même. Un classique.

Quimby the Mouse

Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize. 

It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, Jimmy Corrigan is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed.

Coupes d'immeuble, histoires étage par étage, flashbacks et narrations parallèles, les récits se mêlent et se répondent pour conter les interactions sociales d'un voisinage de Chicago. Relations familiales, liaisons amoureuses, séduction, paternité, éducation, les thématiques se développent au gré des choix du lecteur et construisent un récit fin et sensible. Une oeuvre inclassable et indicible.

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