Rusty Brown By Chris Ware. Jonathan Cape/Penguin Random House, £25, $35
If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s books still a compelling issue, few have a claim as strong as that of Chris Ware. His carefully drawn and extended fictions (such as
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and
Building Stories) chronicle the anxieties of American life with degrees of excruciating internal self-examination and forensic external details equalled by few other authors, literary or otherwise. By concentrating on a small cast of characters over long periods of time, Ware can revisit various obsessions and interests, from pulp science fiction to architecture; race to class; cruelty to kindness – while keeping the reader enthralled. Once you have entered his mundane worlds, these sagas have the gripping inevitability of a picaresque Victorian novel. The final spread displays ‘Intermission’ in huge colou
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