Building Stories is a stunning piece of work, proving yet again why Ware is so frequently included in lists of the greatest living cartoonists." - Alex Hern, New Statesman You may also be interested in. With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it’s reassuringperhaps even necessaryto have something to hold on to. Everything you need to read the new graphic novel Building Stories: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. The number of narrative techniques Ware uses in the novel is giddying. Entertainment Weekly, Best Fiction of 2012. "This is the first book which I have finished and immediately started again, wanting to experience each of the stories with full knowledge of what happens in the rest. Widely hailed as one of the foremost practitioners working in the medium today, his new book, if one can call it that without being reductionist, is a work of such startling genius that it is difficult to know where to begin." - Jake Wallis Simons, Daily Telegraph Chris Ware, the 45-year-old American comics artist, is one of these. "Just occasionally, a writer or artist - or both in one - emerges who is so astoundingly original that everything else suddenly seems like a facsimile of what has come before. "A major moment in British cultural history." - Christopher Frayling, Radio 4 Astonishment is an entirely appropriate response." - Sam Leith, Guardian
"There's nobody else doing anything in this medium that remotely approaches Ware for originality, plangency, complexity and exactitude.
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