![]() ![]() ![]() And I have to say, after spending a week poring over them all, I think this may actually be Ware’s best work, trumping both the still-uncompleted Rusty Brown and Jimmy Corrigan.īut before I get into why I think that-and whether you agree-Tasha, I think we have to talk about the format of Building Stories. But now, Building Stories has been collected by Pantheon, as 14 different books, tabloid sheets, and pamphlets, contained within a large cardboard box. In their individual installments, the Building Stories stories have been beautiful but fairly slight, following a set of typically Ware-ian protagonists-an old landlady who’s never known romance, a bickering young couple who used to be hip, and an insecure artist with a prosthetic leg-through their ordinary lives of dull jobs, plumbing woes, and sexual dissatisfaction. ![]() This whole time, Rusty Brown has seemed like the next major Ware work, with Building Stories more of an engine for generating simple, poignant pieces for well-paying periodicals. Noel: Since finishing his groundbreaking graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth, Chris Ware has primarily been working on two projects: the serialized graphic novel Rusty Brown, which has been running in Ware’s infrequently published comic-book series Acme Novelty Library and Building Stories, which Ware has run in Acme as well as in scattered comics anthologies and general-interest magazines. ![]()
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