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Chris Ware

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I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.


— Chris Ware


#clearly #films #get #go #i

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.


— Chris Ware


#feels #honesty #i #i think #most

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.


— Chris Ware


#books #central #collected #comic #comic books

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.


— Chris Ware


#empathy #fortified #gave #grandmother #how

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.


— Chris Ware


#book #impose #life #real #real life

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.


— Chris Ware


#always #artist #encouraging #mother #wanting

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.


— Chris Ware


#bad #blames #cartoon #might #painting

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.


— Chris Ware


#appealed #build #comics #like #me

Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.


— Chris Ware


#clear #get #getting #i #line

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.


— Chris Ware


#first #first thing #get #i #i do






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Quimby the Mouse appears in the logo of a Chicago-based bookstore "Quimby's" although their shared name was originally a coincidence. Unfortunately as a result I guess sometimes readers get a chilled or antiseptic sensation from it which is certainly not intentional and is something I admit as a failure but is also something I can't completely change at the moment. In addition to numerous daily strips under different titles Ware also had a weekly satirical science fiction serial in the paper titled Floyd Farland: Citizen of the Future.

His lettering and images are often elaborate and sometimes evoke the ragtime era or another early 20th-century American design style. He is considered by some critics and fellow notable illustrators and writers such as Dave Eggers to be among the best currently working in the medium; Canadian graphic-novelist Seth has said "Chris really changed the playing field. Franklin Christenson Ware (born December 28 1967) known professionally as Chris Ware is an American comic book artist and cartoonist notable for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories.

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