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We've been looking at the 2021 June 17 – 19 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction #7244 auction from Heritage, which may be their most significant comic book auction to date with some insanely valuable, desirable, and influential examples of original comic book artwork, such as the following pages drawn by Chris Ware for Acme Novelty Library and Building[...]

The Angoulême Official Selection 2015 lists are out, collecting what the body who put on the world's largest comic book art festival consider to be the best comic book works published this year. In French. Notable listed items originally published in English on the Official Selection include Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples, Building Stories by[...]

Building Stories by Chris Ware. Currently this massive comics about buildings and the way humans live in and around them, that breaks the comic book format into creating separate items that all link together, in one big box is now £4.99 on Amazon.co.uk Instead of the regular £30. That's an 83% discount. The best comic book present you[...]

Now, of course, Ware takes even greater risks, like the format of Building Stories, but Kidd suggested that a certain amount of faith has to be placed in readers, since everybody "got it" regarding Building Stories, from reviewers to fans and book sellers who "just sort of figured it out". Kartalopoulos pointed out that there's an[...]

Bleeding Cool is happy to exclusively run the original English version. Building Stories comprises 14 publications and you haven't set a reading sequence Based on analytic combinatorics, I've found that there are 87 billions, 178 million, 291 thousand and 200 different possibilities of reading it Were you aware of these numbers while you developed Building Stories? Well, no[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; As part of the Stripped strand at the Edinburgh Book Festival Graphic Scotland held an awards ceremony for the inaugural 9th Art Awards  last night, as some of you may know the 9th Art is a French term that describes comics as being the ninth type of art. Graphic Scotland[...]

I do feel that Ellen Forney was robbed, but I know she'll continue amazing us for several years to come. Best Graphic Album – New Who Won: Building Stories, by Chris Ware (Pantheon) Who I Picked: Building Stories, by Chris Ware (Pantheon) There goes Chris Ware, Building another shelf for all his Eisner awards! Called it! Best Adaptation from Another[...]

However, that's not keeping me from being vocal regardless! Who is not eligible to vote? Comics press or reviewers (unless they are nominees) Non-creative publisher staff members (PR, marketing, assistants, etc.) Fans Before I get back to tapping the phones of the Eisner Judges so I can be eligible for next year, let the games begin!   Best Graphic Album-New Building Stories,[...]

Or maybe it's just that in the UK, the partnerships are formed in pubs and hotel bars, rather than offices. Still, Gillen and McKelvie, who partnered on the nascent Phonogram after meeting at a comic convention in Bristol, are living proof of the tradition however it's incited, and their rise from indie obscurity to mainstream dominance[...]

Building Stories by Chris Ware is one of those perfect Christmas gifts for comic book readers A collection of a variety of comics, newspapers, pamphlets that tell one story in many different ways, it is bound to top a number of people's best-of-year lists. That's if you can find it Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk are out[...]

Come on guys, there's still a month and a half to go! Have you even read the new Grandville yet? The No 1 book, Building Stories by Chris Ware, also gets a mention in no 11 in Amazon's best of all books of 2012 too. 1. Building Stories by Chris Ware (Oct 2, 2012) 2. Darth Vader and Son (Star[...]

Matt Streets writes for Bleeding Cool; Editor's Note: We asked Chicago based Matt Streets to give Bleeding Cool a first look at fellow Chicagoan Chris Ware's Building Stories – due to hit retailers on October 2nd After conveying to us that this was "no ordinary comic book," he's kindly provided us (and you) with[...]

Chris Ware's Building Stories from Pantheon is a much anticipated, massive comic dedicated to our city dwelling follies. Which is why I now have to also buy the cut-out-and-assemble version And then do as it instructs. The Multi-Story Buliding Model – Chris Ware Portfolio is signed limited edition thirteen sheet print that encourages you to destroy its $79.95[...]