本书是今敏漫画故事短篇全集，收录今敏从1984年至1989年间创作的漫画，除了与大友克洋合著的《国际恐怖公寓》，他所有的短篇都收录其中。 1984年，今敏发表首部漫画作品《虏》，直到1997年，首部动画电影《未麻的部屋》才横空出世。13年间，今敏埋头于漫画创作。作为动画导演，他享誉海内外，然而作为漫画家的道路却走得并不顺遂，仅有两部作品出版。那些十年如一日画出来的作品，在时间的长河中被掩埋，进而凝结成了化石。 2010年8月24日，今敏年仅46岁的人生因为病魔戛然而止，留给世人的只是远去的背影。《梦的化石》将那些不为人知的梦想碎片捡拾起来，令它们重新焕发出无与伦比的光芒。

这是未来的伦敦，这是一个普通的夜晚：游荡街头的艾薇·哈蒙德撞上心怀不轨的秘密警察。 这是颠覆的遭遇，这是一个奇怪的男子：披着斗篷、头顶高帽，戴着伪善笑容的面具。 这是黑暗的未来，这是一个集权的社会：大领袖亚当·苏萨牢牢紧攒国之命脉，他的爪牙遍布每一个角落。人民将窃窃私语埋入肚中，高谈阔论几成奢望，直到那晚照亮整座伦敦的轰鸣声，沉默了许久的黑夜开始发起反击。 他戴着盖伊·福克斯的假面，化身为叫做V的复仇使者，他引用着被禁止的诗词，向艾薇·哈蒙德传授自己的理念思想和他为之付出的行动。他试图创造社会政治变迁，同时暗自推动激烈的私人复仇。艾里克·芬奇奉命缉拿对国家造成威胁的嫌犯，从死亡名单中逐渐揭开历史的疮疤。魅影画廊里，那张笑脸依旧挂着毫不动容的神情，指挥着自己的计划像多米诺骨牌一样达到最终目的，而艾薇·哈蒙德将发现面具之下那张真正的面容……

4-time 2013 Eisner Award Winner: Best Lettering, Best Publication, Best Writer/Artist and Best Graphic Album New York Times Book Review, Top 10 Books of the Year Time Magazine, Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year Publishers Weekly, Best Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews, Top 10 Fiction of 2012 Newsday, Top 10 Books of 2012 Entertainment Weekly, Gift Guide, A+ Washington Post, Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2012 Minneapolis Star Tribune, Best Books of the Year Cleveland Plain Dealer, Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year Amazon, Best Books of the Year/Comics Boing Boing, Best Graphic Novel of the Year Time Out New York, Best of 2012 Entertainment Weekly, Best Fiction of 2012 Everything you need to read the new graphic novel Building Stories: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it’s reassuring—perhaps even necessary—to have something to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of maturity—while discovering a protagonist wondering if she’ll ever move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you’re feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in somewhat damaged form during REM sleep). A pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on the back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set down, forget or completely lose any number of its contents within the walls of an average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Building Stories collects a decade’s worth of work, with dozens of “never-before-published” pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse, filthy or just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable periodical). Winner of the 2013 Eisner Awards for Best Graphic Album-New, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Chris Ware is the winner of 2013 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist for Building Stories. One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2012

从“ 第一手原画 ”与“ 作废原稿 ” 观察“漫画之神”奋斗的痕迹 珍藏手稿大公开 编辑推荐 ◎“漫画之神”手冢治虫珍藏手稿大公开 书中手稿来自手冢治虫28部漫画作品，包括《罪与罚》《三眼神童》《MW》《阿波罗之歌》《火鸟》《灯台鬼》《原人伊西物语》《神奇独角马》《阿常》《人间昆虫记》《虹之序曲》《神奇美乐蒙》《电影万岁》《森林大帝》《车手》《怪医黑杰克》《佛陀》《原子小金刚》《神奇少年》《三个阿道夫》《缎带骑士》《我的孙悟空》《狼人传说》《多罗罗》《修马力》《Ｗ３(三神奇)》《超级太平记》《风介风云录》。 ◎通过修改前后的手稿对比，从什么是漫画的“原画”开始，到“手冢漫画”的完成过程、色彩的魔术师、各种修改、前情提要与人物介绍、剪刀与胶水的艺术、消失的原画，加上穿插着小单元：原画的副产物及作品解说等等，让读者们彻底了解何谓手冢治虫原画的秘密。 本书通过展示、比较160余张珍贵的手冢治虫“第一手原画”与“作废原稿”，介绍手冢创作原画的步骤、对彩色稿进行色指定的方法、各种修改画稿的标记、剪贴重组的方式等，引领读者了解手冢治虫创作的全过程。