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Chris Ware is a cartoonist and comic book artist known for his old-fashioned aesthetic, which draws inspiration from a broad cross-section of influences including Gasoline Alley cartoonist Frank King, sculptor Joseph Cornell, ragtime music and early 20th century advertisements.
Ware's earliest strips were published in The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin. His work attracted the attention of comics legend Art Spiegelman, who invited Ware to contribute to the publication RAW. From there, Ware developed a relationship with Fantagraphic Books, which published one of his most well-known series Acme Novelty Library and the resulting graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth.
Ware is also known for his non-comics work, designing posters for ragtime performers and bands, the radio program This American Life and films like The Savages.
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Fast Facts
- Born: December 28, 1967
- Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska
- Full name: Franklin Christenson Ware
- Notable works: Acme Novelty Library, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
- Characters created: Jimmy Corrigan, Quimby the Mouse, Rusty Brown
- Awards: Eisner Award and Harvey Award winner
- Edited comics-devoted, 13th volume of McSweeney's
- Monthly strip Building Stories appears in the Sunday New York Times Magazine
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- I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I "draw", which keeps me at a sensible distance from the story as well as being a visual analog to the way we remember and conceptualize the world. I figured out this way of working by learning from and looking at artists I admired and whom I thought came closest to getting at what seemed to me to be the "essence" of comics, which is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. - Chris Ware, On Cartooning
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PBS POV: On Cartooning: Chris Ware Interview (2006)
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Here and Now: Comic Strip Artist Chris Ware Audio Interview
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BBC Collective: The Jimmy Corrigan Author Pours His Heart Out
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PBS POV: On Cartooning: Chris Ware Interview (2006)
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RT @fantagraphics: First look: Krazy & Ignatz 1916-1918, cover design by Chris Ware: http://is.gd/4SKOK
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Chris Ware (Monographics Series) - $22.50
A close-up look at the gifted graphic novelist the New York Times Book Review called “the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has ever known”As one of today’s most renowned graphic novelists, Chris Ware is widely con...
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Quimby the Mouse - $35.10
As this cartoon silhouette of a mouse ignominiously suffers at every turn, the spaces between the panels create despair and a Beckett-like rhythm of hope deceived and deferred, buoying Quimby from page to page.
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The Acme Novelty Library - $27.50
Utterly eschewing the general bonhomie surrounding the newly-minted contemporary regard for the comic strip medium as a language of complicated personal expression and artistic sophistication, professional colorist and award-winning lett...
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Acme Novelty Library #19 (No. 19) - $15.95
The penultimate teen issue of the ACME Novelty Library appears this autumn with a new chapter from the electrifying experimental narrative “Rusty Brown,” which examines the life, work, and teaching techniques of one of its centr...
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - $12.70
A comic/graphic novel that won the Guardian First Book Award 2001. It is the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.
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