![]() It’s a bookor rather a box of readable, viewable, printed, book-like thingsto get lost in. Yet Jimmy Corrigan had a certain coldness, even a predictability: Its people were smaller, sadder, flatter than the cityscapes and panels around them, and they seemed to shrink as the pages went on.īuilding Stories isn’t like that: It’s better in every way. Ware’s work was and is compelling in its meticulous self-consciousness about comics form, with complicated diagrams and schemes whose elegance belies the melancholy of the people who have to inhabit them. 260 pages.ĬHRIS WARE’S COMICS in the 1990s and 2000sespecially his massive graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000)made him one of the most widely praised creators we have. Detail from Chris Ware’s Building Stories (Pantheon Books, 2012).īuilding Stories, by Chris Ware. ![]()
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