"The most despairing image in Chris Ware’s magnificent new graphic novel, 'Building Stories' — and there are plenty of candidates — depicts a dumpy middle-aged couple, naked in their bedroom. She’s just dropped her clothes to the floor; he’s lying on the bed, oblivious to her, his face and chest illuminated by the iPad propped on his belly. You will never be able to read 'Building Stories' on a digital tablet, by design. It is a physical object, printed on wood pulp, darn it. It’s a big, sturdy box, containing 14 different 'easily misplaced elements' — a hard-bound volume or two, pamphlets and leaflets of various dimensions, a monstrously huge tabloid à la century-old Sunday newspaper comics sections and a folded board of the sort that might once have come with a fancy game. In which order should one read them?"
NYT: Inside the Box
YouTube: Opening Chris Ware's Building Stories, Unboxing
Infographics of Despair: Chris Ware’s Building Stories
LARB: Rick Moody on Building Stories
NYRB: A Triumph of the Comic-Book Novel
Tag Archives: Building Stories Essays
WNYC: Chris Ware's Building Stories (Video)
Watch Chris Ware discuss Building Stories on MSNBC’s The Cycle (Video)
amazon: Building Stories, The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking
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