University Press of Mississippi

Brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). This collection addresses the range of Ware's work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s and his acclaimed Jimmy Corrigan, to his most recent works-in-progress, "Building Stories" and "Rusty Brown".

Offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. Thierry Groensteen covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, before delving into more recent masterpieces.