{"product_id":"quimby-the-mouse-9781560974857","title":"Quimby the Mouse","description":"\u003cp\u003eA one-mouse theater of the absurd. Quimby the Mouse is the second book from Chris Ware; his first book  Jimmy Corrigan (Pantheon  2000)  has been widely acclaimed as one of the mediums finest graphic novels in history and is currently in a fourth hardcover printing. Cleverly appropriated old-fashioned animation imagery and advertising styles of the 1920s and 1930s are put to use in Quimby at the service of modern vignettes of angst and existentialism. As this cartoon silhouette of a mouse ignominiously suffers at every turn  the spaces between the panels create despair and a Beckett-like rhythm of hope deceived and deferred (but never quite extinguished)  buoying Quimby from page to page. Like Wares first book  Quimby is saturated with Wares genius  including consistently amazing graphics  insanely perfectionist production values  cut-out-and-assemble paper projects  and the formal complexity of his narratives that have earned him the reputation as one of the most prodigious artists of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652431372341,"sku":"ByrdShop_1560974850","price":77.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781560974857.jpg?v=1781851511","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/quimby-the-mouse-9781560974857","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}