Tag: Chris Ware
Cosey wins the Grand Prix at Angoulême
The annual Angouleme comics festival is taking place RIGHT NOW, and sadly for comics news website traffic, unlike last year's disaster, things are progressing in an orderly and well-mannered fashion.
And we have a new...
In Case You Never Saw that Chris Ware Animation, Here it is
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Chris Ware is neither a luddite nor a technophobe. He's created computer apps and hearing him talk about his ideas for the technology, it seems that the cost of doing...
Chris Ware battles for graphic literature with “Why I Love Comics”
It seems that Chris Ware, the genius behind Building Stories and other structural comics masterpieces, and Hajime Isayama, the Attack on Titan creator we wrote about a few posts ago, share some of the...
Nice Art: Chris Ware tackles Minecraft
Or rather, his 10-year-old daughter Clara does. In commentary on his cover for this week's New Yorker the Building Stories master—and the graphic novelist whose name is most often connected to the word "genius—...
Chris Ware is serializing “The Last Saturday” in The Guardian
The Guardian is serializing a new Chris Ware comic, called The Last Saturday. If there was a contest to chose the most Chris Ware-like title for a new Chris Ware comic "The Last Saturday"...
Chris Ware reveals his love of sitcoms
Chris Ware is only the second cartoonist to get the Paris Review interview treatment—Robert Crumb was the first—and it's said to be one of his longest and most revealing interviews ever. With scholar Jeet...
Video Alert: CCAD’s MIX 2012 panels with Chris Ware, Charles Hatfield, etc.
MIX 2013 kicks off this weekend — The Columbus College of Art and Design's annual tribute to comics this year features Jeff Smith, Carol Tyler, and more in many fascinating-sounding panels. Don't you wish...
Stripped: Chris Ware – Comics, A Working Class Art Form
Introduced as the laureate of graphic literature, the much celebrated Chris Ware booked a sell out event at a major literary festival, speaking about our fictional bubble lives, his superheroic beginnings, and his hopes...
FILM REVIEW: CARTOON COLLEGE Gets Under the Skin of Making Comics
Representing comics production in popular culture has long been missing a piece of the puzzle. We’ve had excellent documentaries about ground-breaking creators like Will Eisner, characters like Wonder Woman, and even explorations of rising...
On the Scene: Denver Comic Con 2013, Life as a Moving Picture in Chris...
William Kuskin, Ph.D., of the University of Colorado, Boulder, introduced Denver Comic Con’s keynote speaker, cartoonist Chris Ware, as a man who presents “honesty” as an “antidote to the emptiness we see in culture...
Denver Conference Tackles Violence in Comics
The Rocky Mountain Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, sponsored by Comic Book Classroom, the same organization that supports the Denver Comic Con, celebrates its first anniversary this year from May 28th-30th and takes...
Ware’s Building Stries wins Lynd Ward Prize; Carré and Ellsworth honored
Adding to a pile of kudos that you will soon be able to make an actual building from, Chris Ware's great Building Stories has won the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year for 2013. Heads or Tails by Lilli Carré (Fantagraphics) and The Understanding Monster—Book One by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) were the honorable mentions.
The Prize is presented each year by Penn State University Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book to "the best graphic novel, fiction or non-fiction, published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. or Canadian citizen or resident."
