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Acme Novelty Library No 13

Chris Ware
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This issue is almost wholly one story. I chose it because it stands particularly well on its own. Ware’s very much into the interaction of words and images. He has narration and speech and thought bubbles and he’s really interested in how these two ways of storytelling work together. But it’s a very bleak story, almost bleaker than I can stand. I could never be so mean to my characters.