Chris Ware, une œuvre entre segmentation et agrégation

• Main Author: Côme Martin
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et Sociétés 2018-12-01
• Series: Cahiers de Narratologie
• Subjects: Acme Novelty Library; aggregation; chaptering; Chris Ware; fragmentation; Jimmy Corrigan
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/8805

Chris Ware’s work displays an affinity for fragmentation, both in its narration and its chaptering, but remains conceived as a formal and aesthetic whole. It is particularly visible in the volumes of the Acme Novelty Library, which can nevertheless be considered as parts or even chapters of a series designed coherently. It also seems necessary to question the function of chaptering in the denser works of the author, distanced from serialized publications where pauses can be inserted, as is also the case in the radical Building Stories. In this article, I aim to explore the tension between fragmentation and aggregation in Chris Ware’s work, since it appears to offer, in an almost exhaustive way, the range of possibilities allowed by chaptering in comic books.