Raw alumnus Chris Ware dazzles and astounds with his meticulous, hyper-elaborate comics and first-rate stories. Acme #1 recounts the tragicomic life story of "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth" in full color. Acme #2 and #4 are tabloid size collections of Ware's kinetic "Quimby the Mouse" strips. and Acme #3 is a compace, 40-page collection of his "potato-man" college-day strips (as seen in Raw), printed in an adorably tiny format. Beginning with issue #5, Acme Novelty Library brings you an eight-part graphic novel starring Jimmy Corrigan in full-color. The plot is simplicity itself - Jimmy journeys out to the sticks to visit his estranged father - but Ware provides a whirlwind of flashbacks (some as far back as the Civil War), fantasies, and graphic inventions that make this the most visually and narratively dazzling comic of the year. (The story continues in subsequent issues, except for issue #7, a special enormous (8"x14") full-color issue - the most spectacular so far - featuring "Rocket Sam" and "Big Tex," and #10 which is an unrelated tale of Jimmy Corrigan's miserable life.

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