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I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. ↗

— Chris Ware

#any #be nice #cartoonist #each #i

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

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. ↗

— Chris Ware

#almost #children #concepts #dismiss #engaging

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. ↗

— Chris Ware

#also #during #earlier #false #found

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read. ↗

— Chris Ware

#cartoons #drawings #intended #read #real

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older. ↗

— Chris Ware

#austin #blood #change #could #delivering

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. ↗

— Chris Ware

#age #believe #destroys #development #i

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive. ↗

— Chris Ware

#alive #basically #cartoonists #closer #consider

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures. ↗

— Chris Ware

#i #i think #i write #illustrate #illustrator

I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be "seen through," or, even worse, instantly hated. ↗

— Chris Ware

#being #even #even worse #expect #front