Review revue: UK's Guardian Unlimited reviews the much-celebrated McSweeney's 13: The Comics Issue, edited by Chris Ware:

"This book should be bought by anyone with any interest in comics, modern art, in fact, in modern popular culture, full stop. And if you haven't read a comic in years, it can take you back to your childhood. You remember the joy of receiving an annual for Christmas? There always seemed to be just so much stuff in it. You'd flick through it, dip in and out of it, reading the odd page; and then you'd go back and read it all properly over the next few weeks. Well, you can relive that experience with this book. You won't like everything, and, as with those old annuals, there are some boring bits that aren't comics at all. Writing - words on a page with no pictures. Most of the written stuff seems pale and uninteresting next to the comics, though there is quite an interesting piece by John Updike, who apparently started life as a cartoonist, but eventually gave it up to write novels. "