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A 1906 Arts & Crafts style home recently hit the market at 137 S. Humphrey in Oak Park.  The house is a great example of Oak Park’s historic housing stock and is also notable for its ties to noted artist Chris Ware, a cartoonist who has been awarded numerous Eisner and Harvey awards, and whose book, Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth, won the Guardian First Book Award in the UK. Ware’s New Yorker covers often featured images of small-town life that looked a lot like Oak Park.

Londons Cartoon Museum and British graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero have launched The First Graphic Novel Award for 2023.

Which is better: flight or invisibility?

The Chicago Public Library has picked the classic graphic novel about the Holocaust just nine months after a school board in Tennessee voted to remove “Maus” from schools.

News from Marion County.

It has been an impatient wait, but Let’s Read 20 and Marion Public Library are anticipating the arrival of well-known youth author Chris Grabenstein to Marion on Thursday, April 14.

Booklist Online Book Review: Listen Up: Middle Grade Adventure on Audio. <ParaStyle:By

Titles from libraries, bookstores for children.

Chris Grabenstein is the author of the Lemoncello series, the Smartest Kid series, the Dog Squad series, the Wonderland series, the Haunted Mystery

Rusty Brown By Chris Ware. Jonathan Cape/Penguin Random House, £25, $35 If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s books still a compelling issue, few have a claim as strong as that of Chris Ware. His carefully drawn and extended fictions (such as Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories) chronicle the anxieties of American life with degrees of excruciating internal self-examination and forens...