The Acme Novelty Library (3 books in series)
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review 1: This issue of the ACME Novelty Library was particularly imaginative, heartbreaking, and beautiful. The introductory short was a spectacular sci-fi narrative about a doomed colonization of Mars, followed by another short of Ware's more typical subject matter. The illustrations are...
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review 1: Ware is one of the best and most singular graphic novelists, but I feel he always tells the same (depressing) story. It's a testament to his story-telling mastery and ability to push the boundaries of the art form that each volume of Acme provides new insight into the same old l...
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review 1: This was my first Chris Ware work. It will definitely not be my last. His style is deceptively simple. He captures, not just the things that make a life feel real and relatable, but the gaps too: the things you forget and misremember, the things you bury. Often I feel with illust...