{"id":2876,"date":"2004-12-15T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T23:14:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-13T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T22:01:54","slug":"ware-chris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"Ware, Chris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris at Fantagraphics<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This won just about every award last year, and I don’t think anybody out there had a bad word to say about it. That being said, it wasn’t until I was most of the way through it that I saw what an amazing piece of work that it actually was, so I’m going to hold off on the full review until I read it again. Thanks to my roommate for being kind of enough to let me borrow it, though. Until then, I can say with all confidence that this is one of the best things ever done in comics, and if this doesn’t bring some much-needed respectability to the field, nothing will.<\/p>\n

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Quimby the Mouse (Acme Novelty Series)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The new book by Chris Ware. I’m guessing that this is going to reprint the Quimby the Mouse strips from Acme Novelty Library (call me a master detective, but the title should be some clue). While these didn’t impress me as much as the Jimmy Corrigan stories, I’ve also never read a whole bunch of them at once, and his attention to the minutest of details has to be seen to be believed. My copy was delayed, so I don’t know if this will be out soon or what the story is. As always, when I hear something you’ll be the first to know… Here’s a website<\/a> with a bunch of ordering information for Acme Novelty Library, along with a lot of old stuff. Covers too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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