deepfreezebatman's review
5.0
Bees are cute, but they're no Quimby.
After reading the intro I'm afraid that Chris Ware might be reading this review late at night..
So if that is the case, I would just like to tell you Mr Ware, that you sir are a genius....at times a horribly disturbing genius, but a genius nonetheless, and for that I admire you shamelessly.
After reading the intro I'm afraid that Chris Ware might be reading this review late at night..
So if that is the case, I would just like to tell you Mr Ware, that you sir are a genius....at times a horribly disturbing genius, but a genius nonetheless, and for that I admire you shamelessly.
jeffhall's review
4.0
A really beautiful book, both in terms of Ware's beautiful drawings and in terms of the actual book itself - the front cover is an etched representation of images familiar from any American childhood in the late twentieth century. The book almost has the physical feel of a school library volume from that era, and the story lives up to that unusual starting point. As always, Ware is a master at weaving a tale that is simultaneously melancholy, beautiful, and astonishingly honest. It's hard to say enough good things about The ACME Novelty Library #17 - if graphic novels are one of the most rewarding segments of the art world in the early twenty-first century, then Chris Ware deserves a lot of the credit for that fact, and this volume amply demonstrates why.
ecstaticlistening's review
4.0
Yet another of Chris Ware's densely layered and beautifully designed and meticulously rendered works of despair, longing, and the nagging feeling that everyone hates you, even the ones who love you. Now I have to go find 1-16 and read them in order.
levitybooks's review
5.0
Unstoppably good. Absorbingly good. Just, good, and I find it hard to say why. People say this is really bleak or depressing, but if you have an absurd sense of humour, I just find it honest and often laughable.
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