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They have serialised Posy Simmonds' graphic novels, run special issues to accompany the British Library exhibitions and generally put comic books on the front page of more of their weekend magazines and culture guides than any other English language newspaper, and have refrained from "Biff Bam Kerpows" in the process.Which is why so many were disappointed by[...]
Possibly a perfect reason for a US/UK publisher to pick it up...The Audience Appreciation Prize went to Les Vieux Fourneaux Vol 1 by Paul Cauuet and Wilfrid Lupano published by Dargaud.The Jury Special Prize went to Building Stories by Chris Ware, published by Delcourt.The Best Series Award went to Lastman Vol 6 by Balak, Mickaël Sanlaville and Bastien Vivès published by Casterman.The Revelation[...]
This year it was won by Bill Watterson, after Alan Moore declined the honour.Nevertheless, he is nominated again, as well as for the first time, Stan Lee!Christophe Blain
Christian Binet
Charles Burns
Daniel Clowes
Nicolas de Crécy
Pierre Christin
Cosey
Étienne Davodeau
Edika
Emmanuel Guibert
Hermann
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Quino
Stan Lee
Milo Manara
Taiyo Matsumoto
Lorenzo Mattotti
Alan Moore
Katsuhiro Otomo
Marjane Satrapi
Joann Sfar
Bill Sienkiewicz
Jiro Taniguchi
Richard Corben
Jean Van Hamme
Chris WareFavourites are Katsuhiro Otomo, after he[...]
Building Stories by Chris Ware.Currently this massive comics about buildings and the way humans live in and around them, that breaks the comic book format into creating separate items that all link together, in one big box is now £4.99 on Amazon.co.uk Instead of the regular £30.That's an 83% discount.The best comic book present you[...]
The Guardian newspaper has a short but proud history of serialising comic books in its pages, with both Posy Simonds' Gemma Bovary and Tamara Drewe receiving their first airing on a regular basis in its pages.As of today, Acme Novelty Library creator Chris Ware has begun serialising his latest work, The Last Saturday, every Saturday[...]
Dimensions from Men's Feelings, Revival House Press.Chris Ware Building Stories (Excerpt) from Building Stories, Pantheon Books.John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell March: Book One (Excerpt), Top Shelf Productions.Frank M Young and David Lasky The Program Is Morally Good (Excerpt), from The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song, Abrams Comicarts.Ed Piskor[...]
The East Coast of the US may be full of comic conventions this weekend, but East London isn't doing too badly either, as this Chris Ware poster for the event implies On until 7pm tonight, with guests including the aforementioned Chris Ware, Seth, Anouk Ricard, Jesse Moynihan, Anne Simon, Mattias Adolfsson, Takayo Akiyama, Sjoerd van[...]
Kidd reached a point where he decisively wanted Pantheon to start “doing it again” when it came to graphic novels.He recommended “two guys” to Pantheon, an unknown called Chris Ware and Dan Clowes, who had garnered success with Ghost World In 2000, Pantheon “almost simultaneously” published David Boring and Jimmy Corrigan, and got the “recognition[...]
Binet, Christophe Blain, Charles Burns, Pierre Christin, Daniel Clowes, Richard Corben, Bernard Cosey, Étienne Davodeau, Nicolas de Crécy, Edika, Emmanuel Guibert, Hermann, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Manu Larcenet, Milo Manara, Lorenzo Mattotti, Alan Moore, Katsuhiro Otomo, Quino, Marjane Satrapi, Joann Sfar, Jiro Taniguchi, Jean Van Hamme, Chris Ware and Bill Watterson.But the Academy, who normally vote on[...]
Chris Ware draws the New Yorker's first issue cover for January again.It's almost the end of 2013 as we know it! Tomorrow we have the Rumour Awards, the Lying In The Gutters Of The Year and there seems to be lots of lists and charts lying around the place So let's kick off with one[...]
Ramon Vitral recently interviewed Chris Ware for the Brazilian magazine Galileu Bleeding Cool is happy to exclusively run the original English version.
Building Stories comprises 14 publications and you haven’t set a reading sequence Based on analytic combinatorics, I’ve found that there are 87 billions, 178 million, 291 thousand and 200 different possibilities of reading it Were[...]
Now how many comic conventions have that? All making it a laid back chilled out affair.And to kick off this strand with the organisers managed to secure two of the most interesting and important voices in the graphic medium Chris Ware and Joe Sacco Inspired programming as Ware and Sacco are approaching the medium from[...]
However, that’s not keeping me from being vocal regardless!Who is not eligible to vote?Comics press or reviewers (unless they are nominees)
Non-creative publisher staff members (PR, marketing, assistants, etc.)
FansBefore I get back to designing “The Best-Of Bluewater Omnibus” so I can be eligible for next year (Nevermind, it would never work), let the games begin!Best[...]
Chris Ware, Joe Sacco, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Paul Cornell and Posy Simmonds are taking are part in Stripped as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.Other names include Denise Mina, Paul Gravett, Melinda Gebbie, Warren Pleece, Roger Gibson, Chris Riddell, Jon Naught, Stephen Collins, Robin and Lorenzo Etherington, Robbie Morrison, Jim[...]
However, that’s not keeping me from being vocal regardless!Who is not eligible to vote?Comics press or reviewers (unless they are nominees)
Non-creative publisher staff members (PR, marketing, assistants, etc.)
FansBefore I get back to tapping the phones of the Eisner Judges so I can be eligible for next year, let the games begin! Best Graphic Album-NewBuilding Stories,[...]
William Kuskin of the University of Colorado, Boulder, engaged cartoonist Chris Ware in a question and answer session that probed fairly deeply into Ware’s life and work Kuskin introduced Ware as a figure who has “changed our literary culture in a significant way” and even “bent mainstream prose towards comics culture”, particularly in his most[...]
Building Stories by Chris Ware is one of those perfect Christmas gifts for comic book readers A collection of a variety of comics, newspapers, pamphlets that tell one story in many different ways, it is bound to top a number of people's best-of-year lists.That's if you can find it Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk are out[...]
Come on guys, there's still a month and a half to go! Have you even read the new Grandville yet?The No 1 book, Building Stories by Chris Ware, also gets a mention in no 11 in Amazon's best of all books of 2012 too.1.Building Stories by Chris Ware (Oct 2, 2012)
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Matt Streets writes for Bleeding Cool;
Editor's Note: We asked Chicago based Matt Streets to give Bleeding Cool a first look at fellow Chicagoan Chris Ware's Building Stories – due to hit retailers on October 2nd After conveying to us that this was “no ordinary comic book,” he's kindly provided us (and you) with[...]
