Last night I finished reading the last of Chris Ware ACME, and confirmed the feeling I had while reading it, that of standing before a historic comic. ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY # 20, entitled LINT (Drawn and Quarterly), is in my opinion the greatest thing that has made Ware so far, and if we are talking about a genius, as I believe it judging by his previous work, we talking about a before and after in the history of comics, and as such I think this comic will be tried in a few years, with the appropriate perspective. Some may think that how you can be as daring and even "arrogant" to anticipate the future to assert such a thing. Well, then I will simply say that you you read the comic. Because what seems superhuman LINT Ware, a dimensional leap not only in his career but in the history of comics. This has nothing to do with the formal roll "McCay, Herriman-King-etc." Ware is the "cut his teeth" in the first stage of his career to find his language and his speech as an author. LINT is far from that, it is profoundly different, and it is, as it can not be otherwise, for the form. now I can not imagine how you can overcome that Ware and while I suspect you can do in the next ACME. I've seen things you people would not believe ... I mean, seriously, things that have never seen a comic book. The amazes me most of all, over your domain monumental and wasteful way of innovation and work put into each page (must be seen to be believed, his work as a goldsmith, his patience to finish), is his effort have permanent things with pictures + words, in a manner impossible to transfer to other media, literature, film, etc.., nothing other than a comic. Or, rather than a comic Chris Ware. A LINT you could devote a review of 50 pages and still stay short, there are so many issues addressed or suggest, from the representation of consciousness to the "mirror stage" in profound childhood, passing by, it occurs to me now , the huge narrative effect of temporal ellipses from one page to another. So far above just mention three things.
1), the design sense of Ware. If we knew that was a supreme designer, you must read to see what peaks LINT is now climbing. For Ware, comics are designed above all else, because the design only allows you to achieve the complexity and depth of his narrative voice. 2) the notion of "stream of consciousness" takes on new meaning here, with no resemblance to the literary or any other that has been built earlier in the comic (for example, nothing to do with that achieved Miller in his comics of the eighties), claiming that new meaning precisely by the effort to visually represent Ware, treating the text as if drawing and the drawings as being "words" or signs. For example, those little circles that appear next to the labels "major" and that good ideas seem to evoke the unconscious, while the residual thoughts appear and disappear in the periphery of our brains while we're focused on something else. Small circular vignettes, tiny, sometimes suggesting the regrets and mistakes of the past and future desire for other things and people. For example, the flood of incomplete and incoherent sentences that often floats drawn around the images, evoking the nature of thought, the stuff of memories and desire.
3), the point of view, unique. As Paul told me the other day quite rightly, point of view of LINT is a singularity that you can not find anywhere else, comic, novel or movie, at least I've seen or read. It is a subjective viewpoint, and once, just as Ware used to represent, objective and omniscient. It is as if LINDT was narrated at a time from within and from outside, from the depths of a single mind, individual and unique, the subject's character, and from the external view "God", very nearly almost as if both eyes were the same. Subject and object in the same pages. Again, this is possible with form. That is content. Now I can not help but smile at such statements, I've read, I do not inventors that Ware "does not have anything." LINT is so, so dense (and it is, this is the most amazing, in a predominantly visual) its only 72 pages it takes to read like 300 of a normal comic. But of course, LINT is anything but a comic "normal."
That what has LINT? A lifetime, that of a certain Jordan Wellington Lint, whose character is revealed more and more complex due to the successive layers of meaning that add little biographical details we discovered when we least expect. The first 16 pages of LINT and read last year, they were included in the anthology of literary narrative prepared by Zadie Smith, which included, among many stories of writers, two comic , one of Ware and Clowes another. Now Ware has continued these pages to tell the entire life of the subject. But as I say, not only has facts of that life. LINT aims to capture the perceptions, mind and soul subject's biography, and I think he succeeds. LINT must read to understand it, the best comics I've read not already this year ends, but many years ago. It is often said that the comic has not yet given its "Citizen Kane, his IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME. Well, maybe Ware is already producing some of these works similar, and we are privileged to attend this in mind, as he does in comics as monumental and, yes, exciting as this LINT. Reading it is also to understand why Ware is now in a different dimension to that of all his contemporaries. A dimension as the distant future or, rather, an alternate world that nobody else can go. ----
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