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Walt and Skeezix: Book One
Frank King
Drawn and Quarterly, 2005
Great Classic Comics
My only previous experience with Gasoline Alley was a Mad Magazine parody called Gasoline Valley that focused on the interesting fact that the characters actually grew older as the series progressed. The Mad Magazine parody showed Skeezix aging from a baby into an old ...
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McSweeney's Issue 13 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)
McSweeney's, 2004
Extensive overview of comic history. Just beautiful.
For those few who cares, the design of this book is breath-taking. Chris Ware does, not, slack. Every bit of this book is given great level of attention in making sure the details are absolutely perfect. If you have any love for 1) Comics or 2) Book Design at all, this ...
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Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Francois Voltaire
Penguin Classics, 2005
"O che sciagura d'essere senza coglioni!"
If you thought 18th century satire is irrelevant today, you might want to know the meaning of that Italian phrase, uttered by a eunuch at the sight of an abandoned and beautiful young lady in the story: "Oh, what a misfortune to be without balls!"
If you've made the ...
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Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Two: 1995 - 2002
Chris Ware
Drawn and Quarterly, 2007
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 ...
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The Acme Novelty Library
Chris Ware
Pantheon, 2005
A Rarity These Days
I've always enjoyed Mr. Ware's contributions to the genre, but this book....What can I say?! Amazing! Not only are the storylines dense, engaging, and complex, but the book itself is achingly gorgeous. Beautifully bound, a larger size, and with such lovely cover ...
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Acme Novelty Library #19 (Acme Novelty Library)
Chris Ware
Drawn and Quarterly, 2008
Another Masterpiece From Mr F.C Ware
Like Mr. Ware's other additions to the "Acme Novelty Library" series this book never fails to amaze with it's superb use of colors and layout twinned with his sensitive and thoughtfully poetic writing style. This book almost literally comes to life through perfectly ...
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Quimby the Mouse (ACME Novelty Library Series)
Chris Ware
Fantagraphics Books, 2003
Review of Quimby and more-so, revue of Quimby's revues...
Quimby the mouse is very very good; better than any of the pretentious little comics that Fantagraphics calls "the best..blah blah blah..works of art...blah...of the century!" Honestly, most of them aren't better than the Marvel and DC comics that they facetiously ...
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The Best American Comics 2007 (The Best American Series (TM))
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Better than 2006
Two things caught my attention scanning through the Best American Comics of 2007. The first was that it was edited by the multitalented Chris Ware and the second was a story by Gilbert Hernandez about a gigantically breasted woman. The later will get my attention every ...
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware
Pantheon, 2000
Very, very good indeed
Almost perfect. Almost. In my opinion, it gets a bit too clean and ordinary towards the end and loses the denseness that makes three quarters of the book an absolute masterpiece.
But, to be fair, it's one of those books that should be placed near the very top in ...
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Acme Novelty Library #18 (Acme Novelty Library)
Chris Ware
Drawn & Quarterly, 2007
"Stunning" Masterpiece
With his latest "comic book" offering, Chris Ware has again demonstrated a mastery of the medium uniquely his own. His design sense and technical skill as an illustrator long unquestioned, his writing routinely (and especially here) deserves the same consideration.
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Sundays with Walt and Skeezix
Frank King
Sunday Press Books, 2007
as great as the dailies
This gigantic collection is worth every cent. Fantastic art - in it original size - great color and the warm and wonderful characters that Frank King vividly brings to life. This and the first three volumes of dailies are musts for any collection of classics.
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Acme Novelty Library #17 (Acme Novelty Library)
Chris Ware
ACME Novelty Library, 2006
#17
I much admire C.W. work. The book is flawlessly designed. The amount of details is amazing (don't forget to check the barcode sticker with the "warning" on the back cover...
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Walt and Skeezix: Book Three
Frank King
Drawn and Quarterly, 2007
Our greatest comic strip?
Volume 3 of Walt and Skeezix is even better than volumes 1 and 2 and it's hard to get any better than the first two. And Walt gets married and Skeezix gets a mom. So much happens and there is so much of King's wonderful art that this is a must.
Frank King must be ...
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The ACME Novelty Library #16
Chris Ware
ACME Novelty Library, 2005
A great collection
Much more emotional than the previous issue of ANL, this gorgeously-printed book collects installments of "Rusty Brown" and "Building Stories". The former has improved vastly since it's earlier installments---by going back to Rusty and Chalky's childhood (albeit in a ...
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Walt and Skeezix, Book 2
Frank King
Drawn and Quarterly, 2006
pure americana
I used to think there were only four classic comic strips - Lil Abner, Krazy Kat, Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes. Gasoline Alley is as good as any of them, especially in its early years. Frank King's work can only be described as "gentle humor" and is as American as ...
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