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...possible to find the key to a life's mysteries or an artist's work? That's the tantalizing question asked both by and of Chris Ware, the lauded comix author of "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth." The question appears in the form of two new books by Ware, "Quimby the Mouse," (Fantagraphics Books; 68pp.; $24.95) and "The Acme Novelty Date Book" (Drawn & Quarterly; 208 pp.; $39.95). The first collects the author's published works from the early 1990s, while he was still a student. The "Date Book" contains excerpts from the artist's sketchbooks kept between...
...Chris Ware's "Quimby the Mouse...
...Chris Ware's "Acme Novelty Datebook...
...capriciousness of love, the sadness of losing loved ones and the desire for their return become the clear themes investigated by the little mouse. Ware explains why in the introduction: The first half of the book comes from a time when his beloved grandmother fell ill and passed away within a year. The second half of the book's work appeared when Ware left most of his connections behind and moved to Chicago. "During [my grandmother's] steady decline," Ware writes, "I was only able to draw stories of my increasingly littler mouse wandering, alone, through a large, unoccupied house...
Form has always been Ware's forte and "Quimby the Mouse" shows off some of his earliest experiments with it. Ware may be our most committed creator of comix as art. For one thing, he demands high production values for his books. The "Quimby" book must be the most gorgeous graphic novel ever published. It has gold ink embossed in the hardcover, with thick paper and an exquisite mix of color and black and white strips. The "Date Book" likewise has come out as a hardcover with top-notch production, including a placeholder ribbon. A tantalizing sketchbook page from...