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The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Two: 1995 - Present
Hardcover
Series: Acme Novelty Library
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ISBN10: 1897299184
ISBN13: 9781897299180
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: Dec 10 2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.33 Width: 7.08 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781897299180
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: Dec 10 2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.33 Width: 7.08 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Straggling behind the mild 2003 success of cartoonist Chris Ware's first facsimile collection of his miscellaneous sketches, notes, and adolescent fantasies arrives this second volume, updating weary readers with Ware's clichéd and outmoded insights from the late twentieth century.
Working directly in pen and ink, watercolor, and white-out whenever he makes a mistake, Ware has cannily edited out all legally sensitive and personally incriminating material from his private journals, carefully recomposing each page to simulate the appearance of an ordered mind and established aesthetic directive. All phone numbers, references to ex-girlfriends, false starts, and embarrassing experiments with unfamiliar drawing media have been generously excised to present the reader with the most pleasant and colorful sketchbook reading experience available. Included are Ware's frustrated doodles for his book covers, angry personal assaults on friends, half-finished comic strips, and lengthy and tiresome fulminations of personal disappointments both social and sexual, as well as his now-beloved drawings of the generally miserable inhabitants of the city of Chicago. All in all, a necessary volume for fans of fine art, water-based media, and personal diatribe. This hardcover is attractively designed and easy to resell.Also from
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