![]() ![]() The boldness of the style and pizazz was also in counterpoint to characteristics of the work, a nihilistic, depressive melancholy, a collation of failures, and the way society pushes people down to fit certain dehumanising roles. Creator Chris Ware had worked on RAW Magazine, created strips for alternative newspapers and self-published a number of mini-comics, but it was the bold, brash insanity of the over-sized Acme Novelty Library #1 from Fantagraphics Books in 1994 that announced a superstar of indie comics and set him on the path to win the kind of awards that were at the time reserved for novelists, and gain sales that would outstrip his peers in the process. Steeped in the past, reflecting cartoons and designs of the twenties and thirties, with a sensibility of the fifties, Acme Novelty Library created and collated a bunch of comic book storytelling innovations that used the very concept of design to elicit emotional responses from panel-to-panel storytelling. Acme Novelty Library is one of the most important comic books published in the last 25 years. ![]()
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