The Comics Journal asked me to review the new “book” by Chris Ware. We publish them here in no particular order) New York: Pantheon Books, 2012.(Editor’s Note: The following were received on 14 separate slips of paper.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. “Narrative Prosthesis.” In The Disability Studies Reader. New York: Western Publishing Company, 1978.
“Libidinal Ecologies: Eroticism and Environmentalism.” In Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels. “Postmodernism and Consumer Society.” In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. “The Toc Toc of ‘Nothing, Really.’” The Comics Journal. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. “Imagining an Idiosyncratic Belonging: Representing Disability in Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories.’” In The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking. University of Chicago Press, 1982.įink Berman, Margaret. “Transporting Nostalgia: The Little Golden Book as Souvenirs of Childhood.” Children’s Literature 36 (2008): 145–61.ĭerrida, Jacques. London: Harcourt Brace, 1979.Ĭassidy, Julie Sinn. “The Death of the Author.” In Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īarthes, Roland. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. In short, Ware’s comic(s) radically exemplifies the reader-response issues described by Scott McCloud in Understanding Comics (61). The effect is dizzying, the absent center compelling the reader to immense feats of construction as he or she is faced with not just the empty space of the gutter within one singular comic, but the “gutters” that exist in the dynamic, interstitial space between the 14 objects mentioned above. While items in the collection “may,” after a few readings, be placed in an approximately linear order, there is no way of ensuring linearity in a first reading, or perhaps at all.
While it was published over several years in publications like The New York Times Magazine, it may now be purchased as a “whole” in an almost Monopoly-sized box containing 14 objects: a game board, hardcover books, and numerous comics in broadsheet, newspaper, and flip book form. The most disconcerting fact about Chris Ware’s Building Stories is that it is very much unlike anything most of us have ever seen.
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