Jimmy Corrigan - the creation of artist Chris Ware - is a boy with the face of a disappointed old man. This graphic novel tells the poignant story of a shy character and his relationship with his absent father. The book collects Ware's comic strips in hardback format, with a fold-out jacket.[...]

In Chris Ware's own words, '"Building Stories" follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple who wonder if they can bear each other's company for another minute; and finally an el[...]

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 improvisat[...]

"New York Times Book Review," Top 10 Books of the Year
"Time Magazine," Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year
"Publishers Weekly," Best Book of the Year
"Kirkus Reviews," Top 10 Fiction of 2012
"Newsday," Top 10 Books of 2012
"Entertainment Weekly," Gift Guide, A+
"Washington Post," To[...]

Virtuoso Chris Ware (b. 1967) has achieved some noteworthy firsts for comics. The Guardian First Book Award for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth was the first major UK literary prize awarded for a graphic novel. In 2002 Ware was the first cartoonist included in the Whitney Biennial. Like A[...]

This is an perceptive collection of essays surveying the work of acclaimed comics creator Chris Ware. "The Comics of Chris Ware" brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware. At levels both popular and scholarly, Ware's [...]

The author's insights from the late twentieth century come together in a collection that includes doodles for book covers, personal assaults on friends, half-finished comic strips, fulminations of personal disappointments, and drawings of the miserable inhabitants of Chicago.[...]

Cyril Hellman träffade under en tioårsperiod i början av 00-talet några av världens främsta och mest betydelsefulla serietecknare, exklusiva möten som han som svensk journalist var ensam om. Här samlas för första gången ett urval av intervjuerna med de nordamerikanska serietecknarna, f[...]

The prelude to the "Walt and Skeezix" series offers a portrait of a country in transition "Walt Before Skeezix" collects the first years of Frank King's beloved comic strip "Gasoline Alley"--one of the most widely read and syndicated strips of its time, which is still syndicated today. These comics,[...]