e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Title Starts with...Title Keyword(s)Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)Subject Starts with...Subject Keyword(s)Series Starts with...Series Keyword(s)Anyword/AnywhereList Name Keyword(s)       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Ware, Chris, 1967-     Subjects     Ware, Chris, 1967- -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography.     Graphic artists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Graphic artists -- United States -- Biography.     Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.     American wit and humor, Pictorial.     Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ware, Chris, 1967-       by title:      Monograph / Chris Wa...       by call number:      741.5 W267m     Search the Web     Ware, Chris, 1967-     Ware, Chris, 1967- -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography.     Graphic artists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Graphic artists -- United States -- Biography.     Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.     American wit and humor, Pictorial.     Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States.       MARC Display

Monograph / Chris Ware ; preface by Ira Glass ; introduction by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. by Ware, Chris, 1967- Call #: 741.5 W267m Subjects Ware, Chris, 1967- -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography.   Graphic artists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Graphic artists -- United States -- Biography.   Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.   American wit and humor, Pictorial.   Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States. URL856 View an award presentation for Chris Ware on YouTube. ISBN:  9780847860883 (hc.) Description:  275 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 46 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Contents:  Preface / Ira Glass -- Introduction / Françoise Mouly, Art Spiegelman. Summary:  "An excessively illustrated memoir and a flabbergasting experiment in publishing hubris, this book charts the art and literary world's increasing tolerance for the language of the empathetic doodle directly through the work of one of its most esthetically constipated practitioners. For thirty years, writer and artist (i.e. cartoonist) Chris Ware (b. 1967) has been testing the patience of readers and fine art fans with his complicated and difficult-to-comprehend picture stories in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times and other charitable periodicals - to say nothing of challenging the walls of the MCA Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art with his unevocative delineations and diagrams. Arranged chronologically with all thoughtful critical and contemporary discussion common to the art book genre jettisoned in favor of Mr. Ware's unchecked anecdotes and unscrupulous personal asides, the author-as-subject has nonetheless tried as clearly and convivially as possible to provide a contrite, companionable guide to an otherwise unnavigable jumble of product spanning his days as a pale magnet for athletic upperclassmen's ire up to his contemporary life as a stay-at-home dad and agoraphobic graphic novelist. Shrewdly selected personal photos distract from justifiably little-seen early experiments littered among never-before-seen paintings and sculptures, all padded out with high-quality scans of original artwork publicizing jottings, mistakes, blunders and, especially, Mr. Ware's University juvenilia via which the reader can track a general cultural increase in tolerance for quality's decline since his work first came on "the scene." Expensive, heavy, and fashioned from the finest uncoated paper and soy-based ink, this thigh-crushing book is certain to cut off the circulation of all but the most active of comics boosters"--Provided by publisher. "Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Franklin Christenson "Chris" Ware is an American cartoonist known for his Acme Novelty Library series (begun 1994) and the graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) and Building Stories (2012). His works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression. He tends to use a vivid color palette and realistic, meticulous detail. His lettering and images are often elaborate and sometimes evoke the ragtime era or another early 20th-century American cartooning and graphic design, shifting through formats from traditional comic panels to faux advertisements and cut-out toys. Ware often refers to himself in the publicity for his work in self-effacing, even withering tones. He is considered by some critics and fellow notable illustrators and writers, such as Dave Eggers, to be among the best currently working in the medium"--From wikipedia.org website. Genre:  Comic books, strips, etc. Memoirs. Other authors:  Glass, Ira. Mouly, Françoise. Spiegelman, Art. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction Oversize 741.5 W267m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.