New York Press on Chris Ware

The alternative paper New York Press has a feature online about Chris Ware, calling Acme Novelty Library the "best fiction of the season":

His ideas are all about the way technology is alienating us not only from our own potential but from our ability to imagine it—the major subject of our time. While the emotional range of his work is in some ways limited, mainly playing variations on a few themes of aching emptiness, regret, shame, cruelty and remorse, that’s fitting given his themes and the contours of his medium. (It also exceeds the range of most novelists working in prose, who display little beyond a smug, preening vanity.)

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