Week 11: Acme Novelty Library

I’ve read Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware. When I first opened the page, I liked the drawing style; cartoon network-like simple and cute drawing attracted my eyes. I also like the old comic book color and format. But as I read through the page, it wasn’t the most cheerful story. It’s already talking about death in first 10 pages, and I am a person who feels huge vacancy when I read something with heavy subjects. It somehow brought me sadness and futility looking at the world that Ware has drawn through comics. At first the drawing seemed to be very cute and warm like children’s literature, but change of perspective makes it seems like each comic box is very vacant and empty yet cute—which not a bad feeling but the subtle change of my own perspective makes the comic look so different. I think display of words and drawings is what made it affective with changing my perspective of looking at this comics. Ware uses thick, bold font and displays in a single comic box which makes dramatic effect despite it’s small space it’s talking. To me, the way Ware draws out this world makes me feel like human being is such a lonely existence on this planet. There’s barely a contact made between protagonist and other characters; only the God is the one, but not very warm hearted. I personally enjoyed this comic, so I may look forward of reading more of these.