Chris Ware was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1967. Known for his New Yorker magazine covers, he’s hailed as a master of the comic art form. Ware’s graphic novels tell stories about people in suburban Midwestern neighborhoods. Stories featuring many of Ware’s protagonists often first appear in serialized form in publications before being organized into their own books. Experimenting with the form of the novel, Ware’s Building Stories is a box set of fourteen printed works in a variety of formats, that can be read in any order. The artist’s complex compositions unfold time through space in arrangements which include pages entirely absent of words, radical shifts in scale, and characters, locations, and events seen from multiple points of view.