Chris Ware’s “Rusty Brown” Book Signing Event, In Conversation with Marnie Galloway – Sept 24th (Illinois)

On September 24th, 2019 (at 7:00 pm) Chris Ware & Marnie Galloway will be making an appearance for the release of Ware’s latest Graphic Novel Book, “RUSTY BROWN” (Pantheon).

A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth  and  Building Stories.

“Rusty Brown” is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of a couple people in the first half of a single Midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown  aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.

CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged to be the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and fourteen-year-old daughter. His  Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth  won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by  The Times  (London) in 2009.  Building Stories  was named a Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year in 2012 by both  The New York Times  and  Time  magazine. Ware is an irregular contributor to  The New Yorker,  and his original drawings have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in piles behind his worktable in Oak Park, Illinois. In 2016 he was featured in the PBS documentary series  Art 21: Art in the 21st Century , and in 2017 an eponymous monograph of his work was published by Rizzoli.

Chris Ware will be in conversation with Marnie Galloway.

Marnie Galloway is a Chicago cartoonist who makes literary & poetic comics that experiment with book form and narrative structure. She is best known for her Xeric Award winning wordless comic, “In the Sounds and Seas,” which made the Notable Comics list in Best American Comics, and was highlighted in the Best Comics of 2016 by the AV Club. Other comics of note include  Particle/Wave , published by So What Press;  Burrow , self published with support from the Pulitzer Arts Foundation; and  Slightly Plural , a short collection of poetry comics. She served as an organizer for CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, for four years, and has had comics published by the New York Times, Cricket Magazine, Saveur Magazine, Cambridge University Press, and Ask Magazine, where she currently works as the staff cartoonist.  marniegalloway.com

QUIMBY’S BOOKSTORE
1854 W. North Avenue Chicago, IL 60622

Phone: (773 ) 342-0910

OH YEAH, Here’s a LINK to the Official FACEBOOK EVENT Page for this Book Release/Signing.

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