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Building Stories #[g]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis oversized, slipcased collection from Pantheon presents Chris Ware's acclaimed 'Building Stories' as a deliberately non-linear narrative experience. Rather than a traditional bound book, it assembles fourteen distinct printed pieces—ranging from broadsheets and booklets to a cloth-bound volume—that explore the interconnected lives of residents in a Chicago apartment building, with a focus on a lonely woman and her elderly landlady. The format invites readers to engage with the story in any order, mirroring the fragmented nature of memory and time.
In "I Just Met the Most Wonderful Guy...," Chris Ware crafts a quietly devastating portrait of longing and isolation, tracing a wife’s quiet unraveling as her husband’s affection fades. The story pivots with a sudden shift in time—150 years forward—where a future woman discovers the emotional residue of that fleeting, poignant moment, preserved like a relic. A masterclass in narrative economy and emotional precision, all drawn, inked, colored, and lettered by Chris Ware.
In "null," a quiet moment of emotional distance between a wife and her husband unfolds at a metro station, where she briefly notices a familiar face from work. The story shifts abruptly 150 years forward, when a future woman discovers a preserved memory fragment of that exact moment—caught in time, untouched by the years.
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Reprinted in Building Stories #7, Building Stories #7
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