Rusty Brown

“I wonder why other people couldn’t see the virtues of an innately democratic pictographic poetry, grounded in a transdimensional metaphysic, anyway?”—Chris Ware Rusty Brown is, like Jimmy Corrigan, and Building Stories (his three main books), epic in scope and length, exhibiting astonishing technica Leggi tutto

I've sampled Chris Ware here and there over the years, but I think this is the first full book of his that I have read, and frankly, I just don't get all the acclaim heaped on him. Pathetic and awful people live pathetic and awful lives in teeny tiny little panels. I guess we can never have enough st Leggi tutto

Awed again as always by Ware. For some reason I had lower expectations for this, maybe from some exposure about ten years ago to Rusty Brown pages that didn't quite do the trick for me, or maybe from mixed reviews on here and not much on my radar raving about it elsewhere online. After the first twe Leggi tutto

Technically astounding as always, at times truly beautiful and with streaks of genius, but unrelentingly depressing. The best of it, Lint, was published as a self-contained story as ACME Novelty Library 20, although Joanne Cole's sequence is lovely and has a real emotional hit at its denouement. When Leggi tutto

Como todos los trabajos de Ware, un prodigio técnico y artístico. Tengo la impresión de que en este volumen experimenta más con el dibujo que en otras obras anteriores. En lo relativo al guión, parece que Ware siempre cuenta la misma historia, las mismas vidas. El caso es que lo que cuenta son las co Leggi tutto