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"A Triumph of the Comic-Book Novel" by Gabriel Winslow-Yost, New York Review of Books, Dec. 20, 2012 review of "Building Stories" by Chris Ware Architecture Diagrams, Comic People, Graphic Narrative, Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Market Art, Image Reference, Comic Layout, Ligne Claire

Chris Ware’s drawings are meticulous, even chilly, with flat, muted colors and the straight lines and perfect curves of an architectural rendering. The panels follow an orderly horizontal grid, but have a discomfiting tendency to occasionally shrink to near illegibility; or they might suddenly demand to be read from right to left, or even disappear entirely, to be replaced by pretty but unhelpful typography, complicated diagrams, or plans for a paper model of one of the stories’ locations…

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