![]() 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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