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Writers at Wright Presents: Graphic Novelist Chris Ware October 4
Graphic novelist Chris Ware unveils his newest work, Building Stories on Thursday, October 4 at Unity Temple. Admission is $10 for this author event hosted by Writers at Wright.
Graphic novelist Chris Ware unveils his newest work, Building Stories on Thursday, October 4 at 7 pm at Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street, in Oak Park. Admission is $10 for this author event hosted by Writers at Wright. Tickets available at The Book Table (1045 Lake Street, 708-386-9800) or online at http://booktable.net. Tickets may be redeemed for $10 off the cover price of Building Stories at the event. 10% of all book sales at this event will be donated to the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation. Ware will be available for signing books following his presentation.
About Building Stories
Building Stories imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple, possibly married, who wonder if they can bear each other's company another minute; and the building's landlady, an elderly woman who has lived alone for decades. Taking advantage of the absolute latest advances in wood pulp technology, Building Stories is a book with no deliberate beginning nor end, the scope, ambition, artistry, and emotional prevarication beyond anything yet seen from this artist or in this medium, probably for good reason.
About Chris Ware
Chris Ware was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1967. While attending the University of Texas at Austin, he published a regular comic strip in the student newspaper, which Art Spiegelman happened upon and then subsequently gave the unknown cartoonist four pages in RAW magazine. Ware moved to Chicago in the early 90s and began publishing in the pages of the Chicago alternative weekly New City and then until 2006, The Chicago Reader, which has formed the bulk of material that he's been collecting in his regular periodical, The ACME Novelty Library, since 1994. Offering both serialized stories and short experiments in comics form, a confusing collection of the same name was issued in a large-format hardcover by Pantheon Books in 2005. From both this strip and periodical emerged the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan — the Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon, 2000) which received an American Book Award in 2000, the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, and the obscure French comics award "L'Alph Art" in 2003. In 2009 Jimmy Corrigan was named as one of the “100 Best Books of the Decade” by The Times (London). Ware is also the author of The Acme Novelty Datebook Volumes 1 and 2 (Drawn & Quarterly, 2003, 2007), Quimby the Mouse (Fantagraphics, 2003), was the editor of the 13th issue of McSweeney’s (2005), and was the guest editor of Houghton-Mifflin's Best American Comics 2007. He is a contributor to The New Yorker, and was the cartoonist chosen to inaugurate the New York Times Magazine’s “Funny Pages” section in late 2005.
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Chris Ware's work has appeared in many national and international art exhibits, including, inexplicably, the Whitney Biennial exhibit in 2002. He continues to publish his strips as he finishes them in the pages of the Virginia Quarterly Review. His ongoing Acme Novelty Library series reached its 20th issue in 2010. He was recently awarded the Hoi Fellowship by the newly formed United States Artists, a non-profit organization that makes direct grants to working artists. Ware lives in Oak Park, Illinois with his wife, Marnie, a high school science teacher, and their daughter, Clara.
About Writers at Wright
Writers at Wright is a partnership between The Book Table, Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, Friends of the Oak Park Public Library, and Midwest Media dedicated to bringing the finest authors to speak at Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece, Unity Temple in Oak Park.
