Acme novelty library (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Book shows shelf & handling wear, including cover scuffing and edge wear. Interior of front cover is marked with writing. Pages are slightly worn on their edges.

Zustand: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 64pp. 9.5x.5x7.25" Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Very Good condition (slight beumps to front cover). "AGGLOMERATING the first half of the introductory preface of the glacially-accreting pictogrammatic narrative experiment arbitrarily designated, for purposes of convenience, as 'RUSTY BROWN,' as well as presenting perfunctory prefatory remarks regarding our second, though no less glacial tale, tentatively titled 'BUILDING STORIES' (pp. 61-vi) to which the careful reader will note a suspicious similarity of themes, ideas, and color tints, despite its being an entirely independent and intentionally remote aesthetic organism." [front cover tiny print] "Though [previous ACME Novelty Library issues were] originally released by alternative comics vanguard Fantagraphics Books, this new sixteenth issue is the first to be entirely produced, printed and published by Mr. Ware alone; limited to a single press run, once it is sold out, pulped, and/or burned, neither of these narratives will be available again until 'RUSTY BROWN' and 'BUILDING STORIES' are eventually edited, collected and remaindered as hardcover books. Thus, be the first in your mercantile district to own this first chapter of what years from now is sure to be a tart, possibly insincere reminder of the fragile economy and mental disposition of the early 21st century." [publisher copy] "Ware is the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has known."--Dave Eggers, The New York Times Book Review. [& the most tiny-note wry self-critic] Near-pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, w/only slight cover-beumps, o/w quite fine & presentable.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 78pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "The penultimate teen issue of the ACME Novelty Library appears this autumn with a new chapter from the electrifying experimental narrative 'Rusty Brown,' which examines the life, work, and teaching techniques of one of its central real-life protagonists, W. K. Brown. A previously marginal figure in the world of speculative fiction, Brown's widely anthologized first story, "The Seeing Eye Dogs of Mars," garnered him instant acclaim and the coveted White Dwarf Award for Best New Writer when it first appeared in the pages of Nebulous in the late 1950s, but his star was quickly eclipsed by the rise of such talents as Anton Jones, J. Sterling Imbroglio, and others of the so-called psychovisionary movement. (Modern scholarship concedes, however, that they now owe a not inconsequential aesthetic debt to Brown.) New surprises and discoveries concerning the now legendarily reclusive and increasingly influential writer mark this nineteenth number of the ACME Novelty Library, itself a regular award-winning periodical, lauded for its clear lettering and agreeable coloring, which, as any cultured reader knows, are cornerstones of any genuinely serious literary effort. Full color, seventy-eight pages, with hardbound covers, full indicia, and glue, the ACME Novelty Library offers its readers a satisfying, if not thrilling, rocket ride into the world of unkempt imagination and pulse-pounding excitement." [publisher copy] "Ware's work is both emotional and illustrative, but in quite a conceptual way, proceeding in tense oppositions. He tries to make the drawing "very flat and dead and mechanical, almost like a pictorial language," but the colours are both lush and immensely subtle, perfectly calibrated to mood. "I want the pages to be as beautiful as I can possibly make them. I want that to contradict the stories and the frustrations of the characters;" every day he wrestles his "staccato, jerky, jazzy medium, better suited to telling snappy jokes" into a way of "telling something much more slowly and blurrily, the way real life tends to evolve." The overriding feeling in his work is what David Thomson has called an 'astringent melancholia.'"--The Guardian. [Number Nineteen's cover boards feature a scathing satire of American political operations, say no more.] Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, no jacket as issued.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "Undaunted by lukewarm Internet and blogospheric opinion ("flat," "slow," and "always dreary") of his meretricious return last year to the tradition of the American comic book with the sixteenth issue of his ACME Novelty Library, cartoonist and professional sentimentalist Chris Ware returns with the seventeenth issue of this same title, and it is almost certain not to change general public opinion. [] Continuing with the second half of the introduction to his shamelessly meandering graphic novel 'Rusty Brown' (which began last issue at a private school in the 1970s Midwest), the six-sided crystal suggested by the exegesis of the first installment is slowly turned and examined in midmorning winter sunlight sometime between the bell of first period and the conclusion of lunch for the first through the fourth grades. Also included are more thorough examinations of many of the main characters' cloudy motivations, personal habits, and favorite restaurants, to say nothing of the small dust mote around which they have coalesced and the complications in its life due to the acquisition of superpowers sometime the night before. [] Like the irritating distant family member you only have to see once a year, THE ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY #17 will, as was its predecessor, be published by the author in a single, limited edition only, never to be reprinted until the entire library is collected as a single volume, though it may be promptly remaindered and/or discarded." [publisher copy] Ending with some pages of 'BRANFORD The Best Bee in the World.' "WARNING: THIS ISSUE IS NOT NEARLY AS INTERESTING AS THE LAST ONE WAS. IT IS A SECOND HALF of an already lengthy and interminable introduction to our recent ongoing 'graphic novel' RUSTY BROWN (which appeared in our recent number) and thus exudes none of the sparkle and garden-fresh feeling of something which is genuinely new, surprising, or interesting in its own right. In fact (should one require a metaphor) it is not unlike the waning hours of a disappointingly chaste first date, or the last weeks of a predictable and tiresome love affair, or the end of a conversation once its core topic has become tedious, unwelcome, and numbing. PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS ISSUE IF YOU ARE NOT FULLY AWARE OF THESE RAMIFICATIONS." [back barcode sticker] Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, no jacket as issued. Despite Chris Ware's Warning, a Quite Presentable & Fully Aware production.…