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Building Stories

by Chris Ware

Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – New · 2013 · Winner
Pantheon Booksgraphic-novelsISBN 9782756035970

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About This Book

A boxed set of fourteen printed objects—books, pamphlets, newspapers, a game board—telling the fragmented life of a young woman in a Chicago apartment building. Chris Ware's architectural masterpiece refuses linear narrative and instead assembles an entire emotional world.

About the Author

Chris Ware is an American cartoonist considered one of the most innovative figures in contemporary comics. He won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – New in 2013 for Building Stories (Pantheon), an unconventional narrative told across multiple printed formats. He is also known for Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth.

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