Jimmy Jazz
Douglas Wolk
Tuesday, November 9th 2004
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illustration: Acme Novelty Library
Type cast: Sample Ware
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Beyond that, the text is mostly about how comics are different and Ware is even more different—there's not much about Ware's narrative sense or signature images, but plenty of labored comparison between comics and music. Raeburn is close enough to his subject that one of the pieces in the extensive "Selected Work" section is a handmade, painted Daniel Raeburn wooden toy. He lovingly annotates the covers of all of Ware's comics, and some unreadably reduced interior pages (and mostly omits Ware's pseudonymous commercial-design work). But when Raeburn claims that a time-shifting series of panels, for instance, is "literally capturing the distance between comedy and tragedy," he seems less to be explicating the work than trying to make the case for Ware as a first-rate artist. He doesn't need to.
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