Chris Ware drew four different covers for the Thanksgiving issue of the New Yorker, and they all look terrific.
At the New Yorker site you an read his comic strip (a nice 1650×2250 scan — thanks New Yorker!) and a five-minute interview with Ware (In MP3 format, not RealAudio — thanks again, New Yorker!) — Read the rest
The First Amendment Project is auctioning off an opportunity to have your name and likeness appear in a Chris Ware comic strip. The eBay auction ends September 18 and the current bid is $1370. All proceeds go to the First Amendment Project, "a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom of information, expression, and petition." — Read the rest
This isn't fair. Not only is Chris Ware a supremely gifted cartoonist, he can also play ragtime piano like nobody's business. Link (via Flog!)
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— Read the restChris Ware shares his love of ragtime with MacArthur Genius Grant winner Reginald Robinson.
One of my favorite holiday presents this year was a copy of comic artist Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library, an anthology of his comic series published by Fantagraphics. And I also just read the latest installment in that series, Acme Novelty Library #16. — Read the rest
WBUR radio's Here & Now interviewed amazing comic artist Chris Ware. The conversation has been archived online. Fantagraphics just published Ware's Acme Novelty Library #16, the first issue of the groundbreaking comic in four years.
Link (via Flog!)
Open Source radio with Christopher Lydon had a one hour show with cartoonists Charles Burns (L) and Chris Ware (R). The MP3 file is 24MB.
Link (More recent Ware, Burns and Chip Kidd here)
Chris Ware is one of the best cartoonists around, and a French TV channel has produced a documentary about him. You can get a torrent to download a 100MB file of the documentary from Kempa.
Link (via Drawn!)
Yale University Press just published a monograph of amazing cartoonist Chris Ware, author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. The new book was written by Daniel Raeburn, publisher of the comix crit zine The Imp.
— Read the rest"Daniel Raeburn looks closely at Ware's career, work methods, and graphic innovations, which include pullout, flip-up, and three-dimensional insertions, along with cut-out-and-assemble-paper projects that require construction by readers.
Chris Ware, creator of the Acme Comic Novelty Library comic book series, is also an antique-style toy maker. He usually includes a cardboard cut-out toy in each issue of his comic book. I've always wondered what the toys would look like if they were assembled, but I didn't want to cut my comics up. — Read the rest
Interview with Chris Ware, creator of ACME Novelty LibraryLink
Interview with Chris Ware, another cartoonist I really like. Ware does the Acme Comics Novelty Library.
MAGA enthusiast Lauren Boebert promised her constituents in Colorado's 3rd district that she would never abandon them. True to her nature if not her word, the moment the public penis fondler realized she might lose in the next election, she announced she was running in the 4th district instead, which is far more Republican than the 3rd district. — Read the rest
A wonderful friend began sending me Bob Eckstein's watercolor postcards of famous, still existing, and no longer existing, brick-and-mortar bookstores from across the globe when I was laid up for a few months from an injury last year. Each postcard includes the year the store was opened. — Read the rest
Carla and I have been enjoying Love and Rockets (the comic book, not the band that swiped the name) since the 1980s, when Carla bought a copy at a comic book store in Sacramento. For those of you unfamiliar with the comic books series, it was created in 1981 by the Hernandez Brothers — Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario — from Oxnard, California, and it focuses on the lives of people living in Hoppers (a stand-in for Oxnard) and the fictional South American town of Palomar. — Read the rest
The following ran in my newsletter, The Magnet.
Anyone who's ever read a comic book from the 20th century has seen a Johnson Smith advertisement touting joy buzzers, rubber masks, fake vomit, luminous ashtrays, motor kits, rubber chickens, hypo-coins, miniature cameras, magic tricks, and other novelty items. — Read the rest
I recently came across photos of some pinball machines that looked like playable pieces of art and I was so impressed by their strangeness and beauty that I contacted the creator, Tanner Petch, to tell me more.
Tanners lives in Battle Creek, Michigan, and I recently completed a graduate program in art in Buffalo. — Read the rest
Two years ago, I posted that my old pal Rodney Ascher, director of fantastically freaky documentaries like Room 237, about weird theories surrounding The Shining, and The Nightmare, a study on sleep paralysis, was embarking on a new documentary project about people who believe that we're living in a simulation. — Read the rest
As a long time fan of cartoonist Dave Cooper, I really enjoyed Jim Rugg and Ed Piskor going over Cooper's comic books of the late 1990s and early 2000s. I agree with them that Cooper belongs in the pantheon of Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Charles Burns, Jim Woodring, and the Hernandez brothers.
If you happen to have the 2009 or 2018 issues of The Best American Comics lying around like some of us do, flip to any excerpts in there by Ted Stearn. Hopefully the appeal is instant. But for those who are limited to search results and the attached images above and below, let's dive a little deeper. — Read the rest
I've said before that Drew Friedman is the greatest living portrait artist, and his new book, Drew Friedman's Chosen People, offers proof of my claim. It's available for pre-order now.
— Read the restFeaturing over 100 of Drew Friedman's hyper-realistic portraits of the greats, the near-greats, and the not-so-greats, created over the past decade.
