Chris Ware

American born cartoonist, Chris Ware, originally from Nebraska he now lives in Chicago, Illinois. Ware’s comics are full of meaning and purpose. This is shown by the fact that he does not just write an interesting story but he addresses and explores serious, present-day, social problems and difficulties, such as depression and dementia.
He claims to apply the rules of typography to his drawing style so that he doesn’t attach them too much to story and let them become more detailed, but they are a visual representation of the way we see the world.
Ware sometimes uses photocopies and colours his comics digitally, but I found one particularly interesting point about his work was the fact that it is almost all drawn by hand, even though his style is very clean and digital.





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Greenstreet, Rosanna. (2012), Q&A: Chris Ware.
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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/oct/12/chris-ware-graphic-artist-interview
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Heer, Jeet. Chris Ware, The Art of Comics No. 2.
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http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6329/the-art-of-comics-no-2-chris-ware
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Royal, Derek Parker, Ph.D. (2013), Building Stories – A Close Reading.
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http://www.derekroyal.com/building-stories-a-close-reading/
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Ware, Chris. (2015), The Last Saturday, by Chris Ware.
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2014/sep/13/-sp-chris-ware-the-last-saturday-graphic-novel
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Wikipedia. (2016), Chris Ware.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware
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