Hooray! You have added the first book to your bookshelf. Check it out now!
[−]
  • Search Digit-count Valid ISBN Invalid ISBN Valid Barcode Invalid Barcode
Blog this item

Quimby the Mouse

(ACME Novelty Library)

By Chris Ware

(19)

| Hardcover | 9781560974857

Like Quimby the Mouse?
Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books!

Sign up for free

Book Description

A one-mouse theater of the absurd. Quimby the Mouse is the second book from Chris Ware; his first book, Jimmy Corrigan (Pantheon, 2000), has been widely acclaimed as one of the medium's finest graphic novels in history and is currently in a fourth hardcover printing.

Cleverly apprContinue

A one-mouse theater of the absurd. Quimby the Mouse is the second book from Chris Ware; his first book, Jimmy Corrigan (Pantheon, 2000), has been widely acclaimed as one of the medium's finest graphic novels in history and is currently in a fourth hardcover printing.

Cleverly appropriated old-fashioned animation imagery and advertising styles of the 1920s and 1930s are put to use in Quimby at the service of modern vignettes of angst and existentialism. As this cartoon silhouette of a mouse ignominiously suffers at every turn, the spaces between the panels create despair and a Beckett-like rhythm of hope deceived and deferred (but never quite extinguished), buoying Quimby from page to page.

Like Ware's first book, Quimby is saturated with Ware's genius, including consistently amazing graphics, insanely perfectionist production values, cut-out-and-assemble paper projects, and the formal complexity of his narratives that have earned him the reputation as one of the most prodigious artists of his generation.

Critics

  • Quimby the Mouse by Chris Ware

    The first thing that strikes you about the hardback of Chris Ware's collected ephemera Quimby The Mouse is what a sizeable (349mm by 280mm) and beautiful ("68 digitally-restored tabloid comic book pages"; both b&w and colour) object it is. The attent ... (read full critics)

    readysteadybook published on Mon, 30 Aug 2004

0 Review

Login or Sign Up to write a review
No reviews for this book yet

Book Details

  • Rating:
    (19)
    • 5 stars
    • 4 stars
    • 3 stars
    • 2 stars
    • 1 star
  • English Books
  • Hardcover 56 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1560974850
  • ISBN-13: 9781560974857
  • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
  • Pub date: Aug 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 2323 mm x 1871 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
  • In other languages: other languages Livres Français
Improve data of this book

Prices Change currency & sellers

ISBN Edition List Sale Seller
9781560974857 Hardcover $24.95 -- The Book Depository
Other editions →
Added to Shelf Added to Wish List

Inline Translation Mode

Left click to navigate, right click to translate.

inline translation guide

or close

Inline translation is not ready for this page yet.

Inline translation mode.

Share this page with your friends.

The viewport has not loaded.