In all, the box contained four broadsheets, three magazines, two strips, two pamphlets, a four-panel storyboard, a hardcover book, and a book designed to mimic the Little Golden Books style. In a world of disposability and instant communication, Ware states on the reverse of the book that "it's sometimes reassuring-perhaps even necessary-to have something to hold on to". Ware experiments with the book as printed object in a way similar to the experimental French comics collective Oubapo, paying particular attention to the physical aspects of the individual books-the quality of the paper, binding and page dimensions.
The individual pieces are designed to be read in any order, though the inside of the box includes navigational diagrams to assist the reader, with a note that reads "everything you need to know to read the new graphic novel Building Stories". The completed book was published in box form, and is made up of fourteen printed works, including cloth-bound books, newspapers, broadsheets and flip books. The New York Times Magazine ran a seven-month series from 2005-2006 that was reproduced in the box set in the form of a Little Golden Book. The story "Touch Sensitive" was originally published in the McSweeney's iPad app in September 2011. Some appeared in Ware's Acme Novelty Library #18 (2007), which itself contained material from The New Yorker, Nest, Kramers Ergot, Chicago Reader, Hangar 21 Magazine, and Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Portions of Building Stories were previously published. The work took a decade to complete, and was published by Pantheon in 2012. The boxed version of Building Stories was proposed to Pantheon Books in 2006. Ware said he proposed a similar boxed project to Eclipse Comics in 1987, though it was turned down, and had done some smaller-scale single-edition boxed projects while in art school. The parts of the work can be read in any order. It mainly focuses on her time in a three-story brownstone apartment building in Chicago, but also follows her later in her life as a mother. The intricate, multilayered stories pivot around an unnamed female protagonist with a missing lower leg. The work took a decade to complete, and was published by Pantheon Books. The unconventional work is made up of fourteen printed works-cloth-bound books, newspapers, broadsheets and flip books-packaged in a boxed set. 2012 graphic novel by American cartoonist Chris Ware Building Storiesīuilding Stories is a 2012 graphic novel by American cartoonist Chris Ware.
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