Rusty Brown

Author: Chris Ware

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  • : October 2019
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Review: Chris Ware is one of the great writers of our generation whose graphic novels make most novels (both the graphic and the regular kind) seem thin and simplistic. I spent 20 minutes reading the cover of Rusty Brown. Buy it. Buy all his work. Make your life larger. -- Mark Haddon * Observer, *Books of the Year* *
The biggest story in graphic novels this year was the return of Chris Ware... the epically inventive Rusty Brown is a single day at a Nebraska school in the mid-1970s, from which Ware spins the life stories of a shy nerd, his frustrated father, the privileged class jerk and a thoughtful, banjo-playing teacher. -- James Smart * Guardian *Books of the Year* *
Chris Ware's adventurous, sprawling, dazzling book [Rusty Brown]...is so intricately designed that, like many of Ware's books, the result is an art object... You feel protective, anxious about dog-earing anything, worried you'll blink and miss something. And that's before you reach the story... there are winter days here I haven't seen since childhood, and a stillness so evocative and tender you feel like an intruder. Which is the point, a generous act of detailing, and honoring, everyday life. -- Christopher Borrelli * Chicago Tribune *
A treasure trove of invention... With its awe-inspiring exploration of regret and ageing, anxiety and ennui...Rusty Brown is a human document of rare richness. -- Leo Robson * Guardian, *Book of the Day* *
Moving, sourly funny and virtuosically drawn... It's hard to express in prose how imaginatively and effectively Ware marries words to images, how expressive his almost diagrammatically minimalist style can be, how he juxtaposes banality and trauma, how he sketches the passing of time and the sense of nowhereness in blank wide shots. -- Sam Leith * Daily Telegraph *
Rusty Brown is a towering achievement... a powerful and sometimes heartbreaking book. -- Doug Johnstone * Big Issue *
An astounding graphic novel about nothing less than the nature of life and time... Ware's dazzling geometric art - pointillism for Woody's eyesight sans glasses; close-ups of Joanne's face through the decades - has never been better... Ware again displays his virtuosic ability to locate the extraordinary within the ordinary, elevating normal lives into something profound, unforgettable, and true. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
Once seen, the Ware technique is compelling and unmistakeable... those who loved Jimmy Corrigan are going to faint with delight at Rusty Brown... the combination of a hypnotic drawing stlye and the characters rattling around within the doll's house his technique creates makes for a mesmerising few hours. * Strong Words *
Mordantly funny and beautifully drawn. -- Sarah Hughes * i *
Charting the lives of Nebraskan outcast Rusty Brown and his family, friends, and enemies, Ware brings his telescoping lens to the large and small details of his characters' intersecting, brutally human experiences. His dazzling geometric art amply rewards the challenge posed by each puzzle-like page. -- Rich Johnston * Bleeding Cool *

 

 

Author Biography: Chris Ware lives in Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois. His books include Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, which won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, Building Stories and most recently Monograph, which is part memoir, part retrospective of his career to date. He has won countless awards for his work and has been the subject of several museum exhibitions and scholarly monographs. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker.

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A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories.   Rusty Brown is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of three complete consciousnesses in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.