After 17 years, Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Datebook Volume 3 is released for October

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Acme Novelty Datebook: V3 by Chris Ware is requested for October, as well as a slipcase containing all three volumes, exclusively in comic shops/

It took a long time. Volume two was published in 2007. But now Acme Novelty Datebook: Volume Three from Chris Ware is solicited by Drawn & Quarterly for release on October 22nd, as is a slipcase of all three volumes that will only be available in comic shops, including the first volume from 2003. And we get our first look inside the pages.

“The third and final installment in the artist’s facsimile sketchbook series. After over fifteen years of procrastination, delaying and dawdling, ink-and-paper cheerleader F.C. Ware finally succumbs to imagined public pressure, concluding his tedious experiment in reader trust with the third and final volume of secret notebooks and sketches spanning over thirty-seven years of bus rides, airport delays and telephone hold music. Exquisitely designed doodles, hand-picked wanderings and artful paraphrases of personal conflicts are scattered throughout the comics, unwittingly revealing private animosities and unflattering portraits of public transit riders, the whole carefully scrubbed of any contestable or contentious details. A professional illustrator of adult picture books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker, Le Monde and the Illinois Cook County Assessor’s Office, Mr. Ware’s work on these pages secures his reputation as a reliable unreliable self-narrator, willing to say or write anything to win petty quarrels and imagined squabbles. 208 pages in color, supplemented by notes, an introduction, and a professional apology, with cardboard covers and a cloth spine in misleading restraint to conceal its innate prurience.”

Here’s a look inside.

All three Acme Novelty Datebooks are also available in a “compact and easily recyclable slipcase, the spine of which features a training clock for caregivers who wish to adapt the tiny metal hands as a teaching aid to their own educational exercises, private nostalgia, or personal anxieties.” This slipcase will be made available only to comic shops and direct sales, and not through bookstores, Amazon, and the like.

Acme Novelty Datebook Volumes 1–3,
SCHUBLER EDITION
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 22, 2024 • FOC: AUGUST 26, 2024
149.95 USD • ISBN: 978-1-77046-735-4 • 4-COLOR • 6.625″ x 9.25″ • HC (BOX SET)
LIMITED EDITION | EXCLUSIVE IN THE DIRECT MARKET

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