{"product_id":"acme-novelty-datebook-volume-3","title":"ACME NOVELTY DATEBOOK Volume 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wonderful sketchbook of drawings, ideas, gags, tributes from the talented \u003cstrong\u003eChris Ware. \u003c\/strong\u003e\"After over fifteen years deferral, delay and dawdling, the ink-and-paper cheerleader \u003cstrong\u003eChris  Ware\u003c\/strong\u003e finally succumbs to imaginary public pressure by concluding his 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.\"\n\n\"Exquisitely crafted fine art doodles, hand-selected meanderings and artisanal re-writings of personal conflict are scattered throughout comic strips unconsciously revealing private hostilities and unflattering portraits of public transportation riders, the whole carefully cleansed of any impugnable or litigious tracery.\"\n\n\"As a professional adult-picture-book drawer and regular contributor to the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker, Le Monde\u003c\/em\u003e and the Illinois Cook County Assessor’s office, Mr. Ware’s work in these pages secures his reputation as an reliably unreliable self-narrator, willing to say or write anything to win petty disputes and imagined squabbles.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59642609533214,"sku":"ACME03H","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/acme03h-acme-novelty-date-book-vol-3.jpg?v=1784510865","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/acme-novelty-datebook-volume-3","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}