Pantheon Graphic Novels
 

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Chris Ware

Ware, C.--American cartoonist b. 1967, Omaha, Nebraska, currently residing Chicago, Illinois. Author and creator of the beloved "Acme Novelty Library" series of children's guidebooks, game pamphlets, and picnic songsheets, irregular organs through which the bulk of this work first passed. Mr. Ware is married, but has not reproduced.

Read the Pantheon interview with Chris Ware.


THE BOOKS


Acme Library of NoveltyAcme Library of Novelty

Professional colorist and award-winning letterer F. C. Ware returns to the book trade with "The ACME Novelty Library," a hardcover distillation of all his surviving one-page cartoon jokes with which he tuckpointed the holes of his regular comic book periodical over the past decade.

Read more about the book and view sample pages here.


Jimmy CorriganJimmy Corrigan

"Ware may be the best cartoonist of his generation, and Jimmy Corrigan, seven years in the making, is his masterpiece." --Men's Journal

Read more about the book and view sample pages here.


 

CUT PAPER TOYS

  • Paper toys to print and build. Required: printer, patience, dexterity & glue.
JIMMY CORRIGAN  MAP OF THE WORLD

  • Follow the trajectories of several generations of Corrigans and associates on their peregrinations through space and time. Required: Flash 4.

TALES FROM THE ROAD...COMICS TOUR 2000

IMAGE GALLERY
  • A few of the hand rendered nooks and frames of our Jimmy Corrigan along with several other curious items. (Please be aware that this may take a long time to load if you are connecting to us via telephone.)
KIDD ON WARE
  • An article from PRINT magazine written by Chip Kidd back before Jimmy Corrigan was a glimmer in Pantheon's eye.


WARE LINKS:

SKETCHES AND IMAGES

  • An online international comic art gallery of original works
  • Flip-book animations
  • A Listing of Acme Products produced at Fireproof Press

ACADEMIA AND FRANCE
  • A lively French discussion
  • Form, Function, Fiction:Text, Image, and Design in the Comics Narratives of Winsor McCay, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware
    A Dissertation Proposal by Gene Kannenberg, Jr.

INTERVIEW AND ARTICLES
  • Indy Magazine
  • CNN.com
  • Korean: go to where it says "world comics", then click on where it says "America". You'll need Korean language software to read, but there are also images to view.

OTHER PUBLISHERS