In the comic-arts world, Chris Ware – best known for intricate graphic novels such as Jimmy Corrigan, Rusty Brown and Building Stories – is royalty.
The capstone of a multi-volume sketchbook project with diaristic elements and ironic newspaper-style strips, “Acme Novelty Datebook Volume 3” depicts the travails of the jobbing artist ...
His work is collected together in a book and exhibition entitled Omaha Sketchbook. Working with photographic film, Halpern constructs scrapbooks from darkroom contact sheets of his work.