Chris Ware
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Acme Novelty Library #11
Fantagraphics, 1998
(Series first published in Newcity; reprint by Fantagraphics in Acme Novelty Library #5–6, 8–9, 11–14, from 1995 to 2000, and by Pantheon Books in book form in 2000)
Many of the buildings Ware employs in his artwork are revered architectural spaces that no longer exist and share a quality of hardship and unfortunate circumstance with the characters that dwell within. His depictions return life and emotional energy to these lost buildings, transforming them from setting to the subject.
The Comic Art and Architecture of Chris Ware exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago