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Chris Ware Collection

Acme Novelty Library #2: Featuring Quimby the Mouse. In a Fancy Newspaper Comic Booklet of the Finest Quality > Personalized by Mr. Ware.

Here's everything I have in my possession that was created in part or in whole by the artist Chris Ware. Includes a complete set of every Acme Novelty Library publication (#1 - 20 / Annual Report), work on various mags and books like the New Yorker and Granta, and individual cartoons from New City in the mid 1990s and the NYT Mag in the 2000s. Bonus: early 1990s poster collaborations with the screenprint poster artist Steve Walters of Screwball Press. Mr. Ware, if you are perusing these pages, please know that I am not a base financialist but a true admirer. I've never sold a single item from the Library, and have no plans to do so. If these items appear to be insufficiently read (as you can plainly see, in some cases never taken out of their plastic wrapping), please be advised that I am not much of a reader of anything, save the Internet and the daily edition of the New York Times, printed in Chicago. It's the objects I love. See prior art, Bibliography of American Poetry Told Through the Pulitzer Prize, wherein the volumes went unread but the books themselves studied with passion. I can report that there is hope, as my children are avid comics readers. Dog-ears to come. --DXO

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Acme Novelty Library #1: Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth: Souvenir Book of Views > Front Acme Novelty Library #1: Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth: Souvenir Book of Views > Back Acme Novelty Libary #2: Featuring Quimby the Mouse. In a Fancy Newspaper Comic Booklet of the Finest Quality > Front Acme Novelty Library #2: Featuring Quimby the Mouse. In a Fancy Newspaper Comic Booklet of the Finest Quality > Personalized by Mr. Ware. Acme Novelty Library #2: Featuring Quimby the Mouse. In a Fancy Newspaper Comic Booklet of the Finest Quality > Back Acme Novelty Libary #3: Prizes * Games * Puzzles * Magic > Front Acme Novelty Library #3: Prizes * Games * Puzzles * Magic > Front Acme Novelty Library #4: Sparky's  Best Comics and Stories > Front Acme Novelty Library #4: Sparky's  Best Comics and Stories > Back Acme Novelty Library #5: Jimmy Corrigan #1 -- First in a Series of Fancy Pocket-Sized Chapters > Front Acme Novelty Library #5: Jimmy Corrigan #1 -- First in a Series of Fancy Pocket-Sized Chapters > Back Acme Novelty Library #6: Jimmy Corrigan #2 -- In an Exciting New Installment of Our Little Story > Front Acme Novelty Library #6: Jimmy Corrigan #2 -- In an Exciting New Installment of Our Little Story > Back Acme Novelty Library #7: Book of Jokes > Front Acme Novelty Library #7: Book of Jokes > Back Acme Novelty Library #7: Book of Jokes > Doubles Acme Novelty Library #8: Jimmy Corrigan, Part 3: Brand > Front Acme Novelty Library #8: Jimmy Corrigan, Part 3: Brand > Front Acme Novelty Library #9: Jimmy Corrigan, Part 4: Series of Pictorial Instructors > Front Acme Novelty Library #9: Jimmy Corrigan, Part 4: Series of Pictorial Instructors > Front Acme Novelty Library #10: Library of Novelty > Front Acme Novelty Library #10: Library of Novelty > Back Acme Novelty Library #10: Library of Novelty > Inside (Real) Cover Acme Novelty Library #10: Library of Novelty > (Real) Inside Back Cover Acme Novelty Library #11: Rusty Brown > Front Acme Novelty Library #11: Rusty Brown > Back Acme Novelty Library #11: Rusty Brown > Doubles Acme Novelty Library #12: Acme: A Novelty Library: Our Evening's At Home Series * Appropriate for Any Occasion > Front Acme Novelty Library #12: Acme: A Novelty Library: Our Evening's At Home Series * Appropriate for Any Occasion > Back Acme Novelty Library #13: My New Novelty Library for Autumn 1999 > Back