![]() ![]() ![]() 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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