![]() ![]() The book would go on to win a slew of awards, including a Harvey and an Eisner, and become Ware’s breakout, with the author going on to create such works as Building Stories, and his latest, the acclaimed Rusty Brown. Kidd, entrenched at Pantheon, brought Ware’s brilliant opus Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth to the publisher in 1999 (dubbing Ware “the James Joyce of comics,” and Jimmy Corrigan his “ Ulysses”). We’ve been very close friends ever since.” He paid me $1,000-at that point more than I’d ever been paid for anything-and wrote ‘nude modeling’ in the memo line of the check to embarrass me when I deposited it at the bank. As a sneak peek at our new lineup: Expect Design Matters, and an exclusive piece to accompany it, right here, every Monday.Ĭhip Kidd has never been bashful about his admiration of Chris Ware’s work.Īs Ware told Publisher’s Weekly, “Chip called me one day out of nowhere, offering endless and embarrassing words of kind praise for the first three issues of my comic The Acme Novelty Library, and invited me to design an invitation for a talk he was giving. ![]() Print has been acquired by an independent group of collaborators-Deb Aldrich, Laura Des Enfants, Jessica Deseo, Andrew Gibbs, Steven Heller and Debbie Millman-and soon enough, we’ll be back in full force with an all-new look, all-new content and a fresh outlook for the future. ![]()
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