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Drawn & Quarterly is delighted to welcome Chris Ware to Montréal on Saturday, December 5th at 6:30 pm at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly. This special reception and book signing launches the 21st volume of The ACME Novelty Library. LIbrairie Drawn & Quarterly is located at 176 Rue Bernard O in Montréal, QC.
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Buy the book here: https://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/acme21
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Chris Ware is a writer and artist and has contributed graphic fiction and thirty-two covers to The New Yorker since 1999. He is the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, which won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001; Building Stories, which was chosen as a Top 10 fiction book by both the Times and Time in 2012; and Rusty Brown which was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein award and named among the New York Times’ top 100 Books of 2019. His work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York and the Galerie Martel in Paris. In 2021, Ware received the Grand Prix de la Ville d’Angoulême and a solo retrospective of his work was presented at the Centre Pompidou in 2022, traveling on to venues in Switzerland, Italy, Holland, and Spain, before making its only US appearance in May 2026 at the Billy Ireland Library and Museum in Columbus, Ohio.
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Praise for Chris Ware
"Chris Ware has built a career as a sort of astronaut exploring the nature of the consciousness."—New York Times
“Maximalist and spare.”—Washington Post
“Nobody chronicles lives of quiet desperation with the exacting meticulousness of Chris Ware.”—NPR
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Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:
- Our store uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside, there are no additional steps.
- There is one non-gendered bathroom.
- It is not a sober space, our events sometimes offer alcohol.
- Please email [email protected] if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate.
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