Tag: Chris Ware

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”...

The Rocky Mountain Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, sponsored by Comic Book Classroom, the same organization that supports the Denver Comic Con, celebrates...

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."

This claims to be a video but only the audio is working for me. However either way you slice it acclaimed novelist Zadie Smith and cartoonist Chris Ware talking about story at the New York Public Library is a fascinating team up. For those who cannot absorb audio, there's a write up of their December chat here.

Over the holiday weekend, I had a chance to view Ron Mann's documntary Comic Book Confidential, about which I will have more to say...

This was the third indie show of the year—TCAF and SPX were the other two—where I experienced the complete rapture of falling in love with comics all over again for the first time. Love, death, mystery—when the first time happens all over again, you know you're in the right place. I wasn't the only one feeling the love.

The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival this year was, by all accounts, pretty crowded and hot in the main building, but the governing factor...

Chris Ware contributed just another incredibly amazing cover for Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2012 issue, which was heroically put out by the staff remotely when our offices went black during Sandy. Special props to our IT guy Ernie, who had to climb the 16 flights of stairs to the office numerous times. Not only is this the first time the PW logo has been redesigned, but Ware's epochal Building Stories was the favorite of the entire staff not just the Comics Dept.

By Hannah Means-Shannon The revelries following the Ignatz Awards continued long into the night and crowded the lower levels of the conference center took over...

When you've got Chris Ware as a guest, maybe you can cajole him into whipping out some old thing for a poster. BCGF will be...

By Hannah Means-Shannon Things were buzzing at the Small Press Expo even before it officially began. A crowded hotel lobby, constant chatter, and a general...

While we all know that Amazon rankings are easily gamed and represent dozens not hundreds of copies sold, it's worth noting that Chris Ware's...