Rusty Brown

Author: Chris Ware

Brand: Jonathan Cape

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 356

Release Date: 01-12-2019

Part Number: 9780224078139

Details: ‘The week after I finished the last page of jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated as parodies, but whom now I wanted to humanize... Amidst a setting of memories of My Omaha childhood and Nebraska upbringing.’ (Chris Ware, monograph) now, twenty years later, Ware is publishing rusty Brown in book form. It is, he says, ‘a fully interactive, full-colour articulation of the Time-Space interrelationships of six complete consciousness on a single Midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit.’ The six characters are rusty Brown himself, a shy school kid obsessed with superheroes, his father ‘Woody’ Brown, an eccentric teacher at rusty’s school, chalky white, another schoolboy, Alison white, chalky’s sister, Jason Lint, an older boy who bullies rusty and chalky and fancies Alison, and the boys’ teacher, br>Joanne Cole. Ware tells each of their stories in minute detail (or as he puts it, ‘from childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed’), producing another masterwork of the Comics form that is at once achingly beautiful, heartbreakingly sad and painfully funny.

EAN: 9780224078139

Package Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.6 x 1.9 inches

Languages: English