Rusty Brown av Chris Ware

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<p><b>Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of <i>Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth</i> and <i>Building Stories</i>. </b><br><br><br>''The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated as parodies, but whom now I wanted to humanize... amidst a setting of memories of my Omaha childhood and Nebraska upbringing.'' (Chris Ware, <i>Monograph</i>)<br><br>Now, twenty years later, Ware is publishing Rusty Brown in book form. It is, he says, ''a fully interactive, full-colour articulation of the time-space interrelationships of six complete consciousnesses on a single Midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit.'' The six characters are Rusty Brown himself, a shy schoolkid obsessed with superheroes, his father ''Woody'' Brown, an eccentric teacher at Rusty''s school, Chalky White, another schoolboy, Alison White, Chalky''s sister, Jason Lin