5/19/2023 0 Comments Building stories by chris ware![]() ![]() One thing is clear: Not many of Ware’s characters are happy, even if they live in buildings that are overstuffed, like this box, with things. ![]() ![]() How the reader reads these seems not to matter, for the box is like a river, if that’s not too mixed a metaphor, into which one steps where the current seems safest there’s no beginning to it and no end. Each package contains a story set, as the title suggests, in or near a teeming city. Opening the oversized box that contains the many pieces of this book is a kindred experience: It’s not quite clear what’s inside, save for brightly colored paper in various forms, from foldout poster to ultrathin, small notebook to sturdy hardcover. A treasure trove of graphic artworks-they’re too complex to be called comics-from Ware, master of angst, alienation, sci-fi and the crowded street.Īt 44, Ware ( The Acme Novelty Library, 2005, etc.) is old enough to remember the day when you could stick a few dollars in an envelope, send it off and have a box full of strange goodness come to your door-a mystery box, that is, with puzzles, games, gag items and maybe one or two things worth keeping. ![]()
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