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"Oh boy! Are we gonna try something dangerous now?"

Artw — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:58:07 -0800

Floyd Farland: Citizen of the future - the comic Chris Ware doesn't want you to read.

Novel Graphics

dersins — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:00:29 -0800

"A few months ago, I got an email from Paul Buckley, the wonderful art director at Penguin Classics, who asked if I wanted to illustrate a book cover for him..." Illustrator Michael Cho on designing a cover for Don Delillo's White Noise as part of the Penguin Graphic Classics series, in which prominent comic artists and illustrators create covers for literary classics. All the covers can be found in this flickr set, including Daniel Clowes’s Frankenstein, Candide illustrated by Chris Ware, and Frank Miller's (kind of disappointing) cover for Gravity's Rainbow.

The FPP For Damned Intellectuals!

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:36:26 -0800

"[One] day around 1983, I saw an oversize magazine sticking out of the back of the bin with the word 'RAW' barely visible at the top. Hoping it was pornography, I pulled it out. Much to my disappointment, it wasn't, but I'd also never seen anything like it." - Chris Ware

An oral history of the seminal RAW Magazine: Part One, Life Before RAW | Part Two, Life After RAW Featuring interviews with publisher Françoise Mouly, editor Art Spiegelman, and various contributors, as well as design sketches, neato colour separations, scripts & pencils, the infamous RAW rejection letter, and much, much more!

Kirby with Ducks, goddamit!

Artw — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:20:32 -0800

21 artists who changed mainstream comics (for better or worse)

Long live Quimby The Mouse

PuppyCat — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:49:09 -0800

Quimby The Mouse. That is all. I have been a Chris Ware fan since 1990. More specifically, I have been a Quimby Mouse fan since 1990. This is a video Chris put together for This American Life for their spring 2009 event. The music is by Andrew Bird.

Four Colour Funnies in the Old Grey Lady

Alvy Ampersand — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:08:42 -0800

Daniel Clowes, creator of the seminal and contro versial comic series Eightball, is currently producing the serial Mister Wonderful for the New York Times Magazine's The Funny Pages. The NYT also presents a slideshow exploring the medium of ~~graphic novels~~comics featuring Art Spiegelman, Joe Sacco, Chester Brown, and previous Funny Pages contributors Seth and Chris Ware. Previous Contributors Megan Kelso's Watergate Sue Seth's George Sprott (1894-1975) Jaime Hernandez's La Maggie La Loca [Direct links to PDFs] 01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10 11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20 Chris Ware's Building Stories [Direct links to PDFs] 01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10 11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20 21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30

Chris Ware Gallery

jonson — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:23:56 -0800

This is the largest gallery of works by the amazingly intricate designer/cartoonist/artist Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan) that I've ever seen online. However despite its breadth, it does not include his four covers for last month's New Yorker. Ware completists, also enjoy this (previously posted) gallery of Chris Ware papercraft toys.

Point of interest sir, it also means bloody

Capn — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:17:58 -0800

Have you checked your humors today? Not the gunky jelly stuff in people's eyes, the other kind.

Are you melancholic, phlegmatic, sanguine, or choleric? Are you a salamander, gnome, nymph or sylph? Earth, water, air or fire? Elf, Ninja, Pirate or Dwarf? (arrrr! buckets of blood! flagons of phlegm and barrels of black bile!)

If nothing else, the theory of humors adds to one's arcane vocabulary.

ShareWare...

Dreamghost — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:35:37 -0800

Where does he get those wonderful toys? The paper toys of Chris Ware.

tranquileye — Sun, 03 Jun 2001 06:51:39 -0800

Perhaps Chris Ware is not only the most interesting sequential artist working today, but the most interesting graphic artist as well. Not familiar with his stuff? Like ACME Novelty Library or Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth? Pick up today's New York Times Book Review; Ware illustrates a number of the reviews, and the illustrations form something of a narrative.

rodii — Sat, 30 Dec 2000 18:48:09 -0800

Stupid google tricks: I was looking for links on Chris Ware, author of "Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth" and "The Acme Novelty Library." See how I've cleverly included links to material on both those works? I found those links via Google, and they both include the words "Chris Ware" any number of times. But when I search for "Chris Ware" per se on Google, I only get 11 links. . . and all of them are in German! Anyone got any explanation for this oddity?

jbushnell — Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:23:12 -0800

Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics is out, as is the final installment of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan : The Smartest Boy on Earth, making this the best week at the comic book store since, um, ever?