Tag: Chris Ware

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 at a future date, but the 1989 film serves as...

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 was high attendance, and the discussion panels, held at The...

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 the bar and spilled out onto patios, steps, and walkways,...

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 held Saturday, November 10. Besides Ware, other guests include Richard...

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 sense of anticipation partly due to this year’s much-hyped stellar...

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 epic Building Stories is selling quite briskly on Amazon,firmly ensconced...

As collected by Daniel Benneworth Gray Above is Ware's cover for last week's "back to school" issue—in some ways thematically similar to his Halloween cover last year from 2009*, in that both explore some...

Okay, that was metaphorical, but...While we work on our semi-coherent SPX thoughts, check out the Official Daniel Clowes Twitter for some fantastic images of the weekend. Here's Clowes and Chris Ware pouring over Crockett Johnson Barnaby originals at the Library of Congress:

Daniel Clowes is in the news! So much going on.