Dans son Nebraska natal, Rusty, victime des petites frappes de son école, s'évade en collectionnant les figurines de super héros. Lorsque Chalky White arrive dans son école, les deux enfants très proches se lient d'amitié. La première partie d'un récit choral vertigineux qui retrace la vie de multiples personnages émouvants et pathétiques...
Une terre d'accueil pour des bandes dessinées venues d'autres horizons. A savourer dans des versions françaises particulièrement soignées.
A travers 14 livres/objets dans un coffret, suivez la vie et les questionnements existenciels d'une jeune trentenaire cherchant l'âme soeur, d'un vieux couple qui ne peut plus se supporter, et d'une vieille demoiselle propriétaire de cet immeuble de Chicago dans lequel tout ce petit monde habite. Sans début ni fin, Building Stories est un ouvrage à l'ambition artistique et émotionnelle inédite qui pose l'éternelle question : est-il préférable de vivre seul ou à deux ?
Aux États-Unis, Building Stories a été primé quatre fois aux Eisner Awards. Il a notamment remporté le Prix du Meilleur Roman Graphique, du Meilleur Auteur et de la Meilleure Maquette de Livre.
Building Stories est resté pendant vingt-cinq semaines dans la liste des best-sellers du New York Times.
En France, Building Stories a reçu le Prix Spécial du Jury au Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulêmeen 2015.
Après 16 ans de travail, Chris Ware publie enfin la suite de son roman graphique culte, Jimmy Corrigan. Chef d'oeuvre à la fois narratif et visuel, Rusty Brown met en scène le croisement des vies de 3 personnages. Ce croisement des points de vue agencé avec brio se tient lors d'un début de journée ordinaire dans une petite ville du midwest américain.
68 pages de bandes dessinées au format tabloïd restaurées numériquement.
For the first time in his career, Chris Ware presents a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes autobiographical visual monograph, and opens a revealing window into the worlds he inhabits. Similar to Chip Kidd Book One and Shepard Fairey Covert to Overt , this book serves as a personal chronicle of a contemporary iconic illustrator, and is a must-have for those interested in illustration, graphic novels, and pop culture. The first and much-anticipated monograph by multi-award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist Chris Ware, chronicling his influential twenty-five-year career.
Depuis 30 ans, Chris Ware met la patience de ses lecteurs et des amateurs d'art à l'épreuve avec ses énigmatiques illustrations narratives, aussi bien dans la presse que dans les institutions culturelles. À la fois auteur et sujet de sa propre monographie, l'artiste publie un volume de ses réalisations classées par ordre chronologique, des plus connues à ses peintures et sculptures jamais diffusées, tout en conservant les notes, erreurs, impairs et autres oeuvres de jeunesse.
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.
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.
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La version anglaise du coffret rassemblant les 14 petites histoires de Chris Ware.
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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.
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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.
Chris Ware is a unique creator whose work is often described with words such as genius and masterpiece - this is the 19th instalment of his unique and immaculately designed universe.
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Des albums spectacles, à tirage limité, pour savourer pleinement de fascinants univers graphiques.
The creator of Jimmy Corrigan begins a new story.
This newest edition of The ACME Novelty Library features the first serial installment of "Rusty Brown," Ware's first major lengthy "narrative indulgence" since his Jimmy Corrigan graphic novel. The ACME Novelty Library is Chris Ware's ongoing comic book/art object series, which he has been creating for Fantagraphics since 1993. It is also where Corrigan was serialized to great acclaim and success before going supernova when collected by Pantheon in 2000, selling over 70,000 copies in four hardcover printings.
"Rusty Brown" will be serialized in ACME over the course of several issues (and Pantheon will similarly collect the story in hardcover sometime upon completion, several years from now). The first installment begins with young Rusty, an outcast in his suburban Chicago elementary school, befriended solely by his Supergirl action figure until he meets new kid on the block and fellow comic nerd, Chalky White. Rusty's story is an uncomfortably vivid and uncompromising look into the life of a social outcast. Ultimately, Rusty Brown will run longer than Jimmy Corrigan, tracing Brown's life through adulthood, along with every excruciating moment of failure it brings.
The ACME Novelty Library series has been the most acclaimed comic book series of the last ten years, as well as one of the bestselling contemporary comics on the racks. This is only the second issue, however, that has been available to the general book trade, enabling booksellers to satisfy demand for Ware's work post-Jimmy Corrigan while Ware builds toward the next collection. The format also allows Ware to indulge us with many surprises as well, from Ware's faux-advertising sections and elaborate three-dimensional cut-out designs.
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