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...Rightside Up: McSweeney's #13 as designed by Chris Ware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orgy! | 6/18/2004 | See Source »

...course Chris Ware is involved. Ware, the meticulous, aesthete creator of "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," guest edited the hard covered book, taking over for regular "McSweeney's" editor Dave Eggers ("A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.") Ware's influence can be seen even before you tear off the shrink-wrap (an ironic touch given Ware's disdain for polybagged, untouchable collector's comics). The cover appears deconstructed. And it is, sort of. The dust jacket unfolds into a 29 x 21 3/4 inch, poster-size, full-color work about God, man and comic strips. The verso displays Gary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orgy! | 6/18/2004 | See Source »

...book itself stays true to Ware's high standards, being printed on heavy paper stock and in full color for at least half of the works. The contributors are a jaw-dropping list: every single major North American cartoonist of the last two decades, plus several key historical artists, some newcomers and even a few prose pieces by the likes of John Updike, Chip Kidd ("Peanuts: the Art of Charles M. Schulz") and Glen David Gold ("Carter Beats the Devil"). The works have been loosely organized by genre. Early in the book appears what may be considered the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orgy! | 6/18/2004 | See Source »

...Added up, it makes "McSweeney's" #13 the finest comic anthology ever put together. Ware's talents as designer and editor have turned "McSweeney's" issue 13 into a work of extraordinary depth and beauty. It culminates his efforts at moving the public's idea of comic books from consumable juvenilia to museum-worthy artworks that still retain their puerile edge. (Ware's work has appeared in both the 2002 Whitney Biennial and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.) This will be the standard that future books must meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orgy! | 6/18/2004 | See Source »

...Ware registered a solid fourth-place finish on a throw of 15.55 meters outdoors. Junior Kristoffer Hinson followed up Ware with his own point-scoring toss of 15.40—good enough for fifth...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Strong Start For Track Fades Due To Injury | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

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