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Acme Novelty Library Series

Issues 1-15 were published by Fantagraphics Books. Ware started self-publishing the series starting with #16, which was distributed by Fantagraphics, with subsequent issues distributed by Drawn and Quarterly.

# Main Content Publisher Date Notes
1 Jimmy Corrigan Fantagraphics Books Winter 1993-1994
2 Quimby the Mouse Summer 1994
3 Potato Guy Fall 1994
4 Sparky Winter 1994-1995
5 Jimmy Corrigan, pt 1 1995
6 Jimmy Corrigan, pt 2 Winter 1995-1996
7 Joke Book
  • Big Tex
  • Rocket Sam
 1996
8 Jimmy Corrigan, pt 3 1997
9 Jimmy Corrigan, pt 4 1998
10 Jimmy Corrigan 1998
11 Jimmy Corrigan, pt 5 1999
12 Jimmy Corrigan, pt 6 1999
13 Jimmy Corrigan, pt 7 1999
14 Jimmy Corrigan, pt 8 2000
15 Joke Book II
  • Rocket Sam
  • Tales From The Future
  • Quimby the Mouse
  • Rusty Brown
 2001
16
  • Rusty Brown, pt 1
  • Building Stories, pt 1
 Self-published 2005
  • hardcover
  • distributed by Fantagraphics
17
  • Rusty Brown, pt 2
  • Branford, the Best Bee in the World
 2006
  • hardcover
  • distributed by Drawn and Quarterly
18 Building Stories, pt 2 2007
19 Rusty Brown, pt 3 2008
20 Lint (Jordon Lint, a character in Ware's Rusty Brown work-in-progress) 2010

Issue 181⁄2 was published in 2007 containing Ware's "Thanksgiving" covers for the November 26, 2006 issue of The New Yorker, plus supplementary material, in portfolio format.

The title has been collected into volumes published by Pantheon Books (US), Fantagraphics Books (US) and Jonathan Cape (UK):

  • Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), Pantheon / Cape (collects issue 5, 6, 8, 9 and 11-14).
  • Quimby the Mouse (2003), Fantagraphics / Cape (collects issues 2 and 4 with additional material).
  • The Acme Novelty Library Final Report to Shareholders and Rainy Day Saturday Afternoon Fun Book (2005), Pantheon / Cape (collects issues 7 and 15 with additional material).
  • Building Stories (2012), Pantheon Books Pantheon / Cape (collects issue 18 with material from issue 16, other periodicals, and new material).

Apart from the continuing Rusty Brown saga, numbers 1, 3, and 10 are the only issues to remain uncollected at this time.

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