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The Acme Novelty Date Book: Sketches and Diary Pages in Facsimile Hardcover – August 1, 2003

by Chris Ware (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
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Acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware reveals the outtakes of his genius in these intimate, imaginative, and whimsical sketches collected from the years during which he completed his award-winning graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon). His novel not only won the Manchester Guardian First Novel prize in 2001 but it has sold over 100,000 copies. This book is as much a companion volume to Jimmy Corrigan --one of the great crossover success stories-- as a tremendous art collection from of one of America's most interesting and popular graphic artist.

Chris Ware has a passion for drawing that is surprisingly wide-ranging in style and subject. This book surprises the reader on every page with its sense of spontaneous vision. Architectural drawings from Chicago and interplanetary robot comics collide with cruelly doodled human figures and quietly troubling studies of the still life. A must for people with a passion for modern design and old-fashioned style.

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    August 1, 2003
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    6.98 x 1.19 x 9.57 inches
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    9781896597669
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    978-1896597669
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Prolific alternative-comics artist Ware follows his epic, Jimmy Corrigan (2000), and Quimby the Mouse [BKL S 1 03] with a collection of sketchbook pages. Ware owes his lofty reputation largely to his awesome command of the "grammar" of comics, and this handsome volume showcasing his drawing ability amounts to something of a new revelation. Ware's strips are so meticulous in their rigid perfection that they seem to indicate an obsessive character. Yet these hundreds of life drawings, cityscapes, doodles, preliminary sketches, and other drawings, rendered in an impressive variety of styles, contrarily display unexpected spontaneity and looseness. Particularly revelatory are a handful of actual strips in Ware's familiar multipanel approach, and featuring Jimmy, Quimby, and other characters from his long stories, that are rendered in a rougher, almost crude style. Ware's fans will find his marginal notes fascinating, too, for their revelations about his creative process. Besides showing off Ware's facility and variety, this beautifully designed book demonstrates just how much thought and planning go into his acclaimed graphic novels. Gordon Flagg
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"(WARE) PUSHES THE FORM OF COMICS INTO UNEXPECTED FORMAL AND EMOTIONAL TERRITORY."

"WARE'S USE OF WORDS IS SPARING, AND AT TIMES MAUDLIN. BUT THE REAL JOY IS HIS ART. IT'S STUNNING. IN TERMS OF ATTENTION TO DETAIL, GRACEFUL USE OF COLOR, AND OVERALL DESIGN--WARE HAS NO PEER. HIS DRAWINGS, SOMEHOW, REMAIN DELICATE AND ACHINGLY LYRICAL."

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1896597661
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Drawn and Quarterly; First Edition (August 1, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781896597669
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1896597669
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.98 x 1.19 x 9.57 inches
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    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

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Chris Ware is the author of "Jimmy Corrigan — the Smartest Kid on Earth" and "Building Stories," which was chosen as a Top Ten Fiction Book by both The New York Times and Time Magazine in 2012. A regular contributor of graphic fiction and over thirty covers to The New Yorker, his work has been exhibited at the MoCa Los Angeles, the MCA Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as in regular exhibitions at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York and Galerie Martel in Paris. The PBS program "Art in the 21st Century" featured his work in their 2016 season, an eponymous monograph of his work was released by Rizzoli in 2017 and "Rusty Brown Part I" was published in late 2019 and selected as one the Best 100 Books of the Year by the New York Times. A solo retrospective of his work was presented at the Centre Pompidou in 2022, the Cartoonmuseum in Basel, Switzerland in 2023, the International Museum of Comic Art in Pordenone, Italy in 2024 and will continue to appear in Europe through 2025. The third and final facsimile volume of his unjustifiable, indefensible and fortunately recyclable sketchbooks will be published in October, 2024.

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M. Larson
5.0 out of 5 stars and he loved it. It's full of weird
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2016
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Got this as a present for my SO, who really enjoys Chris Ware's other stuff, and he loved it. It's full of weird, random, silly, intriguing pictures and introspective notes about his artistic process at the beginning of his career. If you are or know a Chris Ware fan then I think this is an excellent gift.

As a side note: there are several sexy drawing of people's fun time bits, so keep that in mind if you're getting for a younger/more sensitive crowd.
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Smiles the do-good monkey
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2022
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Loved his work. Whimsical, surprising, amazing talent.
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Superbaby
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good Collection
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2016
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Tho interesting in the way that all his stuff is interesting, I find getting into this a bit of a challenge. Sure, it is a sketchbook, which by its nature can be less than compelling story-wise, but man I was hoping for some of his trademark sad, lonely storytelling, if even in snippet form, because, ya know, I can relate to them (if you're looking at this item, you likely can too). I really don't relate to Robert Crumb's stuff, which is definitely what some of these (earlier?) sketches were aiming for. Still worth checking out for Chris Ware diehards.
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Vitaminj11
5.0 out of 5 stars Be aware of edition number...
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2008
Chris Ware is an amazing artist--one of the best in the comics industry. His books are something I treasure like a sweaty gold miner. He published this sketchbook in "response" to Bob Crumb's sketchbooks. In the intro, Ware states how influential those books were on him. The variety of styles Ware is capable of using is amazing. You'll also gain insight into the characters we've come to know and love (Quimby, Jimmy Corrigan, etc). If you're a Ware fan--get this book. If you are new to Ware, I'd probably start somewhere else like Jimmy Corrigan.

**The one caution I would provide is that Amazon states that this is the 1st volume. However, the picture above is of volume 2. The 1st edition has a black cover and the 2nd edition cover is blue. The two editions cover different periods of Ware' life.
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A. McDonald
5.0 out of 5 stars Monster talent!
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2005
The book is a record of an absolute monster drawing talent!

It collects tentative investigations, as a scrapbook of ideas and odds and ends. The amazing thing about it is its vitality.

Anything and everything becomes a source of inspiration and investigation into the nature of drawing. A coffee cup, a telephone in a waiting room, a washing machine, such mundane things seem to begin as notations but are transformed by Ware's observation of line and tone into their inner vitality - much like Van Gogh's peasant shoes. There are beautiful portraits. And beyond the observed notes, the book is positively brimming with characters, mutations, and cartoons from his eccentric imagination. The fantastical musings and the observed notations blend, merge together, separate like DNA strands through the book, adding up to a rich record of creativity
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R. Schram
5.0 out of 5 stars great stuff
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2007
beautiful drawings...no matter how self critical mr. ware was back in the day. the book really allows the reader into the head of a master illustrator. if you're looking more for a graphic novel, don't start with this one (try his first real freshman work jimmy c, or his ACME novelty library, probably my favorite - you get a real sense of what ware is all about - clean lines, insane, or better put, anal details). anyway, back to this one...great book, if you're a fan of ware, there's no reason not to get this one, and if you're not yet convinced, this is a nice piece just to have - these same drawings and doodles that once inspired ware himself, now get me thinking. love it.
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Paul Beaudoin
5.0 out of 5 stars budding artists and fans of ware take note
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2008
This has been the best book purchase I've made this year. If you're a fan of Chris Ware and/or nursing your own comic project, I know of no book I'd recommend before this one. In his jumbled, crazy sketchbook pages are the riddle to his success.
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yhavee
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente producto
Reviewed in Mexico on February 7, 2024
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Buen materaial
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roberto brambati
4.0 out of 5 stars La dura vita del giovane fumettista
Reviewed in Italy on August 30, 2019
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Il diario grafico di Chris Ware nei suoi primi anni da appassionato di disegno, oltre a farci seguire lo sviluppo del suo stile personale, ci fa capire che se non è problematico l'artista difficilmente tira fuori delle storie e delle situazioni "interessanti" per il lettore…
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Fleety
5.0 out of 5 stars My oh My
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2018
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I can spend hours just flipping through this (and the other) sketchbook drooling in awe at this mans talent. It's great to get your own creative juices flowing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2017
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fab - great sketchbook stuff.
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P. F. Tracgransglaws
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2016
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Excellent item as described. Prompt dispatch, safe and sound. Top marks.
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