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	Comic creator: Chris Ware
		Chris Ware is a master of composition and color and held to be one of the bright hopes of the American comic.
		Franklin Christenson Ware was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and published his first strips (including 'Floyd Farland: Citizen of the Future' and 'Quimby the Mouse') in the comics section of The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of the University of Texas, in the late 1980s.
		Ware's work was eventually noted by Art Spiegelman, who invited him to contribute to his RAW anthologies.
	lambiek.net /artists/w/ware1.htm (367 words)

	Chris Ware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ware's art is eclectic in its influences, and largely reflects his love of early-20th century American aesthetics in both cartooning and graphic design, transitioning through dozens of artistic styles from traditional comic panels to advertisements to cut-out toys.
		Ware is also the first comics artist to be invited to exhibit at Whitney Museum of American Art biennial exhibition, in 2002.
		"The inimitable Chris Ware." Douglas Wolk, Salon.com, Sept. 2, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Ware (1482 words)

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		Ware strikingly captures an antiquarian look and at the same time gives us several passages of truly funny text, capturing the stilted, highbrow speech of a bygone age and putting it to brilliant satirical use in the service of spurious ads, "helpful hints," and other ephemera.
		Ware sees a comics page as a whole, not just a series of individual panels; each Quimby and Sparky strip seeks not only to tell a story, but to look good on the wall from thirty feet away.
		Ware's comics have taken some heavy critical body blows for being rather cold exercises in style over substance, but the way in which his critics are divided on this issue speaks volumes.
	www.auschron.com /issues/vol14/issue43/arts.wordsandpics.html (577 words)

	CNN.com - Books - A not-so-comic comic book - October 3, 2000
		Chris Ware's "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth" features the intermingled stories of four generations of Corrigans, with similar themes running through their lives.
		Ware was 29 years old, and more than halfway through the writing of the book, when he first met his own father.
		Ware said he is inexpressibly grateful that his publisher, Pantheon (a division of Random House), employed such care and skill in producing the finished book, and managed to price it at $27.50 -- half what it might have cost, according to art director Chip Kidd, who championed the book's publication.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/books/news/10/03/chris.ware (1954 words)

	Chris Ware ★ Steven Barclay Agency
		Chris Ware was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1967.
		Ware is also the author of The Acme Novelty Datebook (Drawn and Quarterly, 2003), Quimby the Mouse (Fantagraphics, 2003), and is the editor of the 13th issue of McSweeney’s (2005).
		Chris is also one of America's most respected popular artists and his work has appeared in many national and international art exhibits, including the Whitney Biennial exhibit in 2002.
	www.barclayagency.com /ware.html (353 words)

	Chris Ware \| The A.V. Club
		As both a weekly strip and a periodical, Chris Ware's ACME Novelty Library presents a world devoid of excessive optimism (to put it mildly) by combining iconic drawings, dizzyingly intricate layouts, and a pastiche of past styles carried off with the skill of a master forger.
		Ware first drew attention with a strip he created while attending college at the University Of Texas in Austin, Floyd Farland, which was nationally distributed in comic-book form during the fl-and-white comics boom of the mid- and late '80s.
		Ware resurfaced again in the early '90s as a contributor to Art Spiegelman's influential comics anthology Raw, at around the same time he moved to Chicago to attend graduate school at the Chicago Art Institute.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/22750 (2159 words)

	Amazon.de: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth: English Books: Chris Ware (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ware's graphically inventive, wonderfully realized novel-in-comics follows the sad fortunes of four generations of phlegmatic, defeated men while touching on themes of abandonment, social isolation and despair within the sweeping depiction of Chicago's urban transformation over the course of a century.
		Ware uses Chicago's World's Colombian Exposition of 1893, the great world's fair that signaled America's march into 20th-century modernity, as a symbolic anchor to the city's development and to the narrative arc of a melancholic family as haplessly connected as are Chicago's random sprawl of streets and neighborhoods.
		Chris Ware also uses same-looking characters for different family generations, causing déja-vu impressions as well as the clear revelation how the walks of life of the Corrigan males ressemble each other and how personal history is sort of repeated.
	www.amazon.de /Jimmy-Corrigan-Chris-Ware/dp/0224063979 (1158 words)

	Review \| Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
		Chris Ware's work is widely considered to be the state-of-the-art in modern comics.
		Ware's reputation among the cognoscenti has been growing from year to year, as evidenced by the growing number of awards he's been reaping.
		On the one hand Ware ridicules his unsympathetic protagonists' shortcomings, but he also explicitly details some of the cruel and difficult circumstances which shaped them into what they are.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/corrigan.html (1035 words)

	lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other ...
		Ware’s own site is devoted to his interest in collecting Ragtime ephemera and doesn’t mention his own work.
		We are having a rip roaring discussion of this point on another blog (www.illustrationart.blogspot.com) with one faction (myself included) believing that Chris Ware does not draw well, but that he reflects the taste of our age: mediocre drawing skills and modest aesthetic ability can be redeemed by highly cerebral concept, prefereably with bleak, alienated content.
		I fear, however, that Chris Ware fans tend to let him off the hook too easily by saying that he shouldn’t be judged by the traditional standards of excellence in drawing.
	www.linesandcolors.com /2006/02/19/chris-ware-fc-ware (1961 words)

	P.O.V. - Tintin and I . On Cartooning . Chris Ware \| PBS
		Chris Ware: I'd agree with McCloud, though I think Hergé employed the same so-called "clear line" to create his backgrounds as he did his characters; he simply didn't present the people quite as inertly as the settings, for the reasons you articulate.
		Chris: Maybe there used to be, but I think pretty singularly due to the efforts of Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly (and David Remnick and Ted Genoways) that that distinction is largely eroding, at least between the New Yorker and alternative comics.
		Chris: Drawing the kind of comics that I do takes so long that to specifically address something as transitory as a political matter in it would be about as effective as composing a symphony with hopes that it would depose a despot.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2006/tintinandi/sfartists_ware.html (3109 words)

	read yourself RAW - Profile: Chris Ware
		Franklin Christenson Ware (1967-) is originally from Omaha, Nebraska, but moved to San Antonio, Texas at the age of 16.
		Chris Ware is one of the most influential cartoonists of his generation and The Acme Novelty Sketchbook contains over 100 pages from his sketchbooks.
		Like Ware's first book, Jimmy Corrigan, Quimby is saturated with Ware's genius, including consistently amazing graphics, insanely perfectionist production values, cut-out-and-assemble paper projects, and the formal complexity of his narratives that have earned him the reputation as one of the most prodigious artists of his generation.
	www.readyourselfraw.com /profiles/ware/profile_ware.htm (1150 words)

	Museum of Contemporary Art
		Chris Ware, often described as an ‘alternative cartoonist,’ is best-known as the creator of the Acme Novelty Library, publications in various formats that feature the adventures of such characters as Quimby the Mouse and Jimmy Corrigan.
		Ware’s work is notable for its clean, compelling design and the complexity of its storytelling.
		Chris Ware attended the University of Texas at Austin in the mid-1980s and graduate school at the School of Art at the Institute of Chicago in the early 1990s.
	www.mcachicago.org /exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=9 (285 words)

	Metroactive Books \|Chris Ware
		Ware describes his comics as "a bold experiment in reader tolerance." Ware's story danced around in time and space from issue to issue of Acme Novelty Library.
		Ware's contemplative work, on the other hand, is always flat and usually small, with sequences of panels not much bigger than postage stamps.
		Ware offers a possible reprieve for Jimmy III, introducing a girl into his office who is as socially awkward as he is. The possibility of romance goes against the unpitying way Ware has treated his hero, this sad heir to the ages, the anti-Superman.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.09.00/cover/ware-0045.html (1789 words)

	BBC - collective - chris ware interview transcript
		Chris Ware: If you can allow me to be pompous, comics are essentially a visual language that provides a sort of synaesthetic simulation of life and consciousness, the best examples allowing the reader to “feel” the odd quake and disposition of the artist’s personality through the rhythmic pattern of tiny, personal hand-drawn pictures.
		Chris Ware: Since I consider comics to be a visual language I’ve simply found over the years that my cartoons “read” more easily if they’re treated more as personal picture-symbols rather than as portraits illustrating words.
		Chris Ware: Well, it’s for a complicated variety of reasons, but mostly it was because I realized a year or two ago that I simply wasn’t really inspired to do it any more, and when I imagined taking over every aspect of it myself, I was suddenly inspired, almost anxious, to work on it again.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A5760812 (1051 words)

	Niemworks > Else > Chris Ware at the Jack Hanley Gallery, March 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chris Ware's show at The Jack Hanley Gallery in March 2003.
		The Chris Ware Experience began with a chat with the cartoonist and his wife a half hour before the show proper.
		Ware was also enjoyable and satisfying, in a different way.
	www.niemworks.com /else/sf_cware_show.html (393 words)

	Roberson's Interminable Ramble: Chris Ware, Self-Publisher
		From the perspective of the consumer and the retailer, the change will likely be invisible, since Ware's stuff will still be solicited by Fantagraphics, and still available from their warehouses, but the change is a significant one.
		For a player at Ware's level (I've lost track of the awards for which he's been nominated and which he's won, but they are legion) to take control of his own destiny like that is really remarkable.
		Chris Roberson's short fiction can be found in the anthologies Live Without a Net (Roc, 2003), The Many Faces of Van Helsing (Ace, 2004), FutureShocks (Roc, 2006), and Forbidden Planets (Daw, 2006), and in the pages of Asimov's, Postscripts, and Subterranean Magazine.
	www.chrisroberson.net /2005/04/chris-ware-self-publisher.html (604 words)

	Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan: El Chico Mas Lindo Del Mundo/the Smartest Kid on Earth Reviews at Shopping.com
		The meticulously crafted frames are as clean and crisp as a hospital bed, and his attention to detail suggests this comic-artist has a profound respect for his medium.
		In the book’s forward, printed on the inside flap of the book binding, Ware’s irony is even more direct: His tongue-in-cheek “General Instructions” provide a Dave Eggers-like primer for establishing “a successful linguistic relationship with the pictographic theater” on the pages that follow.
		In another sequence, Ware draws a conversation between a laborer and his boss in which the dialogue bubbles contain cartoon images instead of words.
	www.shopping.com /xPR-Jimmy_Corrigan_by_Chris_Ware~RD-20026461828 (621 words)

	Chris Ware's urban cartoons make a strange but effective art exhibit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The exhibition of the works of Chris Ware, running at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) until August 27, reflects the current confusion in the debate over comics’ place in the art world—as well as why such a debate is worth having.
		Ware is an extremely gifted storyteller and he paces his narrative brilliantly through the frames.
		The Ware exhibit accomplishes its goal in a roundabout way, and indeed, there’s no way of knowing if the MCA chose the exhibit for this reason or simply because it was a unique graphic art form.
	maroon.uchicago.edu /voices/articles/2006/06/02/chris_wares_urban_ca.php (982 words)

	Amazon.ca: Quimby the Mouse: Books: Chris Ware (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The casual reader can be forgiven if, after reading cartoonist Chris Ware's introduction to his collection of early work, Quimby the Mouse, he or she experiences a twinge of consumer regret.
		Wares use of the comic strip to discuss his dealing with the death of his grandmother is just as moving as the semi-autobiographical Jimmy Corrigan's dealing with meeting his long estranged father, though a bit more non linear, and abstract in many parts (though quite to the point in some).
		Ware is a master whose works deserve to be taught in college literature courses, and art schools alike.
	www.amazon.ca /Quimby-Mouse-Chris-Ware/dp/1560974559 (1815 words)

	Chris Ware animation for This American Life TV show - Boing Boing
		Chris Ware animation for This American Life TV show - Boing Boing
		Chris Ware animation for This American Life TV show
		This cartoon is about schoolkids who started making fake video cameras out of card board boxes and toilet paper tubes to "film" incidents around the schoolyard.
	www.boingboing.net /2007/03/20/chris_ware_animation.html (620 words)

	Review of Raeburn's Chris Ware
		Even outside the cliques of the "comics community," Chris Ware is rapidly becoming the biggest, trendiest name in the business.
		Always in a somewhat adulatory tone, Raeburn's meandering commentary touches on Ware's fusion of text and image, stresses the importance of non-realist style and relishes "[t]hat sweet spot" (20) where cartoony drawings and hand-drawn typography meet.
		It may be an ideal introductory text for, say, a fine art or graphic design student as yet unacquainted with Ware's work, but it is of little use to those who would like to see his comics subjected to closer and more objective scrutiny.
	www.english.ufl.edu /imagetext/archives/v2_2/reviews/tinker.shtml (1059 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Quimby the Mouse: Books: Chris Ware (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the latter part, which comprises the bulk of the book, Ware's main character is the hapless Quimby, a version of a traditional cartoon mouse with a few twists.
		Chris Ware has followed up "Jimmy Corrigan" with a superb collection of his earlier work featuring the eponymous anthropomorphic mouse.
		Other times Quimby is more obviously a character invented by Ware, and it's here a kind of grim humour is achieved, with Quimby frequently abusing his only companion, a disembodied cat head called Sparky, and then becoming overcome with remorse and subsequently lavishing love and attention onto the hapless cat.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Quimby-Mouse-Chris-Ware/dp/022407265X (999 words)

	Powell's Books - Chris Ware (Monographics) by Daniel Raeburn
		As Raeburn shows, Ware's unique art form extends beyond the world of graphic novels into the broader worlds of literature, graphic art, and popular culture, and challenges traditional definitions of all three.
		This includes the standard biographical information, but also covers Ware's working methods and source materials, the everyday life of a contemporary cartoonist, the ins and outs of comics publishing and, by way of Ware's love of ragtime, a fine comparison between the rhythms of ragtime and the structure of comics.
		Ware's work is aesthetically gorgeous, but it's also thematically complex and layered enough to reward the kind of analytical skills Raeburn brings to the project.
	powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0300102917-0 (853 words)

	Powell's Books - The Acme Novelty Library (Acme Novelty Library) by Chris Ware
		The ACME Novelty Library is Chris Ware's ongoing comic book/art object series, which he has been creating for Fantagraphics since 1993.
		On top of all of these riches there is Ware's own personal 'history of art' in cartoon form, and a multi-page story about a naked superhero.
		Combining surreal humor, cutting satire, stunning visuals, and empathic characters, Ware's latest is a wondrous journey into the universe of a master cartoonist in peak form.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-0375422951-0 (804 words)

	Chris Ware
		Chris Ware demonstrates that the language and pictographs in cheap, comical chapbooklets can evolve into fine art, if the author maintains enough courage to eliminate everything unnecessary.
		Ware's comics and illustrations depict isolated, detached individuals who bristle alternately with genuine warmth, compassion, anger, despair, selfishness, hatred, guilt, and profound regret.
		The most consistently-made criticism of Ware's work is that in between all the icy panels and diagrammatic, flow-charted panel structures, there is a decided lack of emotion.
	www.nndb.com /people/357/000025282 (417 words)

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