02. Acme Novelty Datebook #2 by Chris Ware. Montréal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2007.

Ware’s comic vocabulary recalls many cartoonists of the early 1900s. Frank King’s Gasoline Alley was known for its inventive Sunday page structure. King depicted a small-town Midwestern family, several generations of which aged over the course of the comic strip. Pictured on this particular sketchbook page are studies of Frank King’s characters Walt and Skeezix, as well as a written recollection of a visit Ware made to the studio of Henry Darger.

"The Comic Art and Architecture of Chris Ware," Case 8, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, November 11, 2014-January 19, 2015.