The mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well: Chris Ware meets Voltaire
Chris Ware's Chicago-steeped comix serial in the New York Times Magazine, Building Stories marked its fourteenth installment Sunday (all of which are downloadable in PDF form), but the artwork that leapt off Quimby's new arrival table at me Saturday night was his cover for a new translation of Voltaire's "Candide, or Optimism," described by its publisher as "a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps and rough front!
" (Translation: Ware's usual expressive constructions have four surfaces upon which to sprawl.) The irreverence of what Penguin pimps as amazing cover art from one of the most beloved modern comic artists is sure to piss off humorless Classix Scholarz everywhere.
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