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Quimby The Mouse

  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape

  • ISBN: 9780224072656

  • Length: 68  Pages

  • Dimensions: 358mm x 25mm x 288mm

  • Weight: 1085g

  • RRP: £16.99

Quimby The Mouse

Cleverly appropriated old-fashioned animation imagery and advertising styles of the 1920s and 1930s are put to use in Quimby the Mouse 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, Jimmy Corrigan, 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.

  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape

  • ISBN: 9780224072656

  • Length: 68  Pages

  • Dimensions: 358mm x 25mm x 288mm

  • Weight: 1085g

  • RRP: £16.99

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About the Author

Chris Ware

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.

Chris Ware

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