{"product_id":"acme-novelty-datebook-volume-three-9781770467347","title":"Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe third and final installment of the artist's facsimile sketchbook series.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter over fifteen years deferral, delay and dawdling, the ink-and-paper cheerleader F. C. Ware finally succumbs to imaginary public pressure by concluding his tiresome experiment in reader trust with the third and final volume of secret notebooks and sketches spanning over thirty-seven years of bus rides, airport delays and telephone hold music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExquisitely crafted fine art doodles, hand-selected meanderings and artisanal rewritings of personal conflict are scattered throughout comic strips unconsciously revealing private hostilities and unflattering portraits of public transportation riders, the whole carefully cleansed of any impugnable or litigious tracery. As a professional adult-picture-book drawer and regular contributor to the New Yorker, Le Monde and the Illinois Cook County Assessor's office, Mr. Ware's work in these pages secures his reputation as an reliably unreliable self-narrator, willing to say or write anything to win petty disputes and imagined squabbles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e208 full-color pages augmented by annotations, introduction and a professional apology, with paper boards and cloth spine of misleading demureness to conceal its native prurience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Ware\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and artist and has contributed graphic fiction and thirty-two covers to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e since 1999. The author of \u003ci\u003eJimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, and \u003ci\u003eBuilding Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, which was chosen as a Top 10 fiction book by both \u003ci\u003ethe Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e in 2012, his most recent \u003ci\u003eRusty Brown\u003c\/i\u003e was finalist for the PEN\/Jean Stein award and named among the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' top 100 Books of 2019. His work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York and the Galerie Martel in Paris. In 2021, Ware received the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoul?me and a solo retrospective of his work was presented at the Centre Pompidou in 2022, traveling on to venues in Switzerland, Italy and Holland; it will conclude at the Centre de Cultura Contempor?nia de Barcelona in 2025.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50875414479122,"sku":"9781770467347","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5c0fa462-6051-4734-8cf5-463ce8983057.jpg?v=1738287359","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/acme-novelty-datebook-volume-three-9781770467347","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}