December 3, 2004

Heart, Soul, and Comic Literacy

Along with Daniel Clowes, Robert Crumb, and the Hernandez brothers, Chris Ware is a luminary among cartoonists of the so-called underground, adult, alternative, or art persuasion. His irregular comics pamphlet, The Acme Novelty Library, is a smash hit by the subculture's standards, selling an average of 20,000 copies per quasi-annual issue and earning him every award a cartoonist can win. ... In 2000, Pantheon Books collected his 380-page Acme serial, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on

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