Acme Novelty Library

Name: Acme Novelty Library
Price: 29.06 USD
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ISBN: 9780375422959

ISBN-10: 0375422951

ISBN-13: 9780375422959

Edition: 2005

Authors: Chris Ware

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Utterly eschewing the general bonhomie surrounding the newly-minted contemporary regard for the comic strip medium as a language of complicated personal expression and artistic sophistication, professional colorist and award-winning letterer F. C. Ware returns to the book trade with “The ACME Novelty Library,” a hardcover distillation of all his surviving one-page cartoon jokes with which he tuckpointed the holes of his regular comic book periodical over the past decade. Sometimes claimed to be his “best work” by those who really don’t know any better, this definitive congestion of stories of the future, the old west, and even of modern life nonetheless tries to stay interesting by…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/20/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 108
Size: 9.00" wide x 15.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English