The Acme Novelty Library #21
$44.87
- Hardcover
90 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2026
Summary
Artist, writer and ink pundit F. C. Ware returns to the high-stakes, hard-hitting pageantry of the American comic book
This new, unasked-for number of the late 20th century experiment The ACME Novelty Library continues its winning run as the time-tested vehicle for delivering sheer disappointment, disgorging wedges of several in progress stories possibly cogent in their completed forms but here rendered disorienting and dissatisfying as fragmentary, incoherent excerpts. Mirro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770469174 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770469176 |
| Author: | Chris Ware |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 90 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 384mm x 282mm |
| Series: | The Acme Novelty Library |
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Critics Review
Chris Ware has built a career as a sort of astronaut exploring the nature of the consciousness. New York Times. Maximalist and spare. Washington Post. Nobody chronicles lives of quiet desperation with the exacting meticulousness of Chris Ware. NPR.
Chris Ware
Chris Ware is a writer and artist and has contributed graphic fiction and thirty-two covers to The New Yorker since 1999. He is the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, which won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001; Building Stories, which was chosen as a Top 10 fiction book by both The Times and Time in 2012; and Rusty Brown, which was a 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, Holland, and Spain, before making its only US appearance in May 2026 at the Billy Ireland Library and Museum in Columbus, Ohio.
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