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... or at least the name's something like that.
Here now, their sales pitch:
"...this issue is all comics. It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, and on and on. The issue also includes essays from Michael Chabon, Ira Glass, John Updike, Chip Kidd, and others. Hardcover, clothbound, with an enormous dust jacket that does much more than guard against dust..."
And that last bit is no lie - not only does it fold out into something rather massive and appealing to the eye, but as I discovered on the tube home last night when they fell on the floor, it houses two mini-comics. As if about 300 pages of comics from the above-listed folks in a hardback format for £16.99 wasn't decent enough.
Haven't read it all yet, but I've skimmed it, and I'd imagine it'd contain enough variety to appease most people. You could probably do worse than spend your money on this. To be honest, I'm not overly moved by Chris Ware's stuff - it all seems a bit emotionally distant for me - but the drafting and design is very good, and you can't knock the editing abilities involved in getting the above-listed folks together.
Oh, and at the risk of sounding shallow, naked of the dust jacket, it looks very classy.
But enough superficiality: any of you folks read it ? Whatcha think ? |
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