Rusty Brown (Pantheon Graphic Library)

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Exhibitions: Masters of American Comics". The Jewish Museum. Archived from the original on 2011-05-11 . Retrieved 2010-08-10. . . All of this is to say that fans of Ware's other work are sure to love Rusty Brown. Not just the themes, but also the tone, art style and formalist approaches are all very familiar, and certainly no less expertly realized than elsewhere in his œuvre. Is this, then, his magnum opus? The culmination of his career? Well, it’s certainly excellent stuff. Most notably, the chapter known as Lint (which makes up about a quarter of this book) is as powerful as any comic, novel or film I’ve ever encountered, standing head and shoulders above the rest of Rusty Brown and easily on a par with anything else Ware has made. The chapter is an unflinching depiction of the whole life (from birth to death) of a troubled, pitiful and frankly hateful individual, and it’s astonishing in its ability to build empathy and understanding without ever making excuses for its protagonist. Nonetheless, taken as a whole, Rusty Brown doesn’t quite match Building Stories in my estimation, but that’s hardly a criticism; the bottom line is that both Building Stories and Rusty Brown can be counted among my all-time favourite creative works in any medium.

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That’s the biggest laugh line in the book, incidentally - and it’s a hardy, deep laugh, at the expense of a totem of a generation who failed in every way to deliver on the hopeful promise of their earliest achievements. It’s an earned laugh, and a well-observed one, arriving as it does amidst the collapse of the boomers as a voting bloc and demographic. They could have changed or saved the world, but instead chose to vote for a charismatic con man who promised them that the endless party of their protracted arrested development would continue apace so long as they didn’t bother their pretty little heads wondering where all the bodies were buried. Why does every ‘great book’ have to always be about criminals or perverts? Can’t I just find one that’s about regular people living everyday life?”—a character in Jimmy Corrigan Now, twenty years later, Ware is publishing Rusty Brown in book form. It is, he says, 'a fully interactive, full-colour articulation of the time-space interrelationships of six complete consciousnesses on a single Midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit.' The six characters are Rusty Brown himself, a shy schoolkid obsessed with superheroes, his father 'Woody' Brown, an eccentric teacher at Rusty's school, Chalky White, another schoolboy, Alison White, Chalky's sister, Jason Lint, an older boy who bullies Rusty and Chalky and fancies Alison, and the boys' teacher, Joanne Cole. Ware tells each of their stories in minute detail (or as he puts it, 'From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed'), producing another masterwork of the comics form that is at once achingly beautiful, heartbreakingly sad and painfully funny.The long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories.

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Ware's Building Stories was serialized in a host of different venues. [12] It first appeared as a monthly strip in Nest Magazine. Installments later appeared in a number of publications, including The New Yorker, Kramer's Ergot, and most notably, the Sunday New York Times Magazine. Building Stories appeared weekly in the New York Times Magazine from September 18, 2005 until April 16, 2006. A full chapter was published in Acme Novelty Library, number 18. Another installment was published under the title "Touch Sensitive" as a digital app released through McSweeneys. [13] The entire narrative was published as a boxed set of books by Pantheon in October 2012. [14] [15] [16] The boxed set holds 14 different works, in various sizes and forms, weaving through the life of an unnamed brown haired woman. Ware is well known for his expansive, introspective, depth-plumbing works of graphic fiction, and his latest, featuring a series of interconnected, decade-spanning narratives spiraling outward from an Omaha school, is no different . . . There are only brief moments of warmth and affection, but the wider picture, depicting a complex matrix of aching loneliness; long-simmering, acidic resentment; and a desperation for human connection and fulfillment, is rich with pathos and powerfully stirring.” — Booklist (starred)An astounding graphic novel about nothing less than the nature of life and time... Ware's dazzling geometric art – pointillism for Woody's eyesight sans glasses; close-ups of Joanne's face through the decades – has never been better... Ware again displays his virtuosic ability to locate the extraordinary within the ordinary, elevating normal lives into something profound, unforgettable, and true. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Ware’s trademark excruciating beauty and meticulously crafted, gloriously intricate despair.” — Los Angeles Review of Books Ware was commissioned by Chip Kidd to design the inner machinations of the bird on the cover of Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. [20]

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As Joanne's memories coalesce with the narrative action of the chapter, we soon come to understand both her ascetic forbearance as well as the thrust of her research. I will not spoil the final moments of "Joanne Cole," but simply suggest that they are both cathartic and earned (and also note that they explicitly connect to one of Ware's previous novels). Mark: It would be great to see you out there with John, he’s always great, I’ve loved his music for years. Once seen, the Ware technique is compelling and unmistakeable… those who loved Jimmy Corrigan are going to faint with delight at Rusty Brown… the combination of a hypnotic drawing stlye and the characters rattling around within the doll’s house his technique creates makes for a mesmerising few hours. Strong Words The tale begins in Omaha in 1975, where Ware was born and grew up and focuses on a school where a character named Chris Ware also taught. So this is autobiographical comics from Ware?! Ware says, yeah, well basically yes: The book contains three main character arcs, two of which have been previously published, one of which (Lint, Acme Novelty Library #20) has for a long time been mine (and perhaps the world's) favourite graphic novel. I've actually bought Lint twice already to give to as gifts. Now in this flawlessly expanded form beside the two other character arcs it cushions this gem and makes it more balanced.Rusty Brownis a sprawling story about memory and perception, about minor triumphs and chronic failures, about how our inner monologues might not match up to the reality around us. In Ware's world, life can be blurry, spotty, fragmented. His characters are so bound up in their own consciousnesses that they cannot see the bigger picture that frames them. Awe-inspiring . . . A treasure trove of insight and invention . . . Ware’s sensibility is gloriously mixed . . . Rusty Brown is a human document of rare richness – infinitely sad, intimately attuned to desolation and disappointment, but never closed to the possibility of a breakthrough . . . Impassioned and ineffable.” — The Guardian Another sprawling and adventurous novel that, like all of his work, is lonesome, rueful, uncertain about human connection, yet also empathetic, dazzling—as committed to depicting the overlooked and anonymous as it is innovative.” —Chicago Tribune