Chris Ware has tested a whole lot of different formats for his graphic novels, including massively over-sized books, joke books, and craft sets. Now, he's sort of going back to the early roots of comics, publishing a weekly strip on the website of British newspaper The Guardian, titled 'The Last Saturday'.

The first installment of the strip was published Saturday, Sept. 13, with a brief introduction. The apparent premise is that the comic will follow the lives of six characters, all from the town of Sandy Port, Michigan -- and presumably all riddled with self-deprecation and insecurity. It is a Ware work, after all.

'The Last Saturday' is an interesting format experiment. The first page doesn't offer much more than a digital magnifier (primarily for mobile readers) and some unorthodox panel orientations, as is standard for Ware's work, but considering that The Guardian's "interactive team" is developing functionality for the comic, there's a possibility that the comic could take advantage of the online format in all sorts of interesting ways.

New pages will go up weekly at the Guardian website, with no set end date.

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