Chris Ware : conversations

The Resource Chris Ware : conversations
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Chris Ware : conversations
Title remainder
conversations
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edited by Jean Braithwaite
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Language
eng
Summary
  • Editor Jean Braithwaite compiles interviews displaying the comic author Chris Ware's erudition and his quirky self-deprecation. The interviews span Ware's career from 1993 to 2015, including several of the earliest talks reprinted from zines now extremely difficult to locate. The best broadcasts and podcasts featuring the interview-shy Ware, including new transcriptions
  • "Chris Ware has achieved some noteworthy firsts for comics. The Guardian First Book Award for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth was the first major UK literary prize awarded for a graphic novel. In 2002 Ware was the first cartoonist included in the Whitney Biennial. Like Art Spiegelman or Alison Bechdel, Ware thus stands out as an important crossover artist who has made the wider public aware of comics as literature. His regular New Yorker covers give him a central place in our national cultural conversation. Since the earliest issues of ACME Novelty Library in the 1990s, cartoonist peers have acclaimed Ware's distinctive, meticulous visual style and technical innovations to the medium. Ware also remains a literary author of the highest caliber, spending many years to create thematically complex graphic masterworks such as Building Stories and the ongoing Rusty Brown. Editor Jean Braithwaite compiles interviews displaying both Ware's erudition and his quirky self-deprecation. They span Ware's career from 1993 to 2015, creating a time-lapse portrait of the artist as he matures. Several of the earliest talks are reprinted from zines now extremely difficult to locate. Braithwaite has selected the best broadcasts and podcasts featuring the interview-shy Ware for this volume, including new transcriptions. An interview with Marnie Ware from 2000 makes for a delightful change of pace, as she offers a generous, supremely lucid attitude toward her husband and his work. Candidly and humorously, she considers married life with a genius in the house. Brand-new interviews with both Chris and Marnie Ware conclude the volume."--Provided by publisher
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DLC
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Conversations with comic artists

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