Live webchat: Chris Ware

The graphic novelist will be joining us for a live webchat on Monday 19 August from 1pm BST. Post your questions now

Fresh from his appearance at the Edinburgh international book festival, the comic book writer and artist Chris Ware will be joining us on Monday to answer your questions.

Chris is one of the graphic novelists taking part of a special programme of events at the festival this year called Stripped: Comics and Graphic Novels Laid Bare and on Wednesday night took to the stage with Joe Sacco – as you can see on our live blog.

Back in 2001, Ware won the Guardian's first book award for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including the New York Times.

His most recent book, the acclaimed graphic novel Building Stories, follows the lives of the inhabitants of a building in Chicago: the landlady on the ground floor, the young woman living in the first floor flat and the woman living at the top of the building. The work comes in a large, beautiful box, and inside the story is made up of various leaflets, books and pamphlets. For Sam Leith it's the latest demonstration of how Ware finds expressive potential in graphic fiction "that you simply couldn't have anticipated".

When you read a Chris Ware comic you can be fairly sure that you'll end up with a migraine from the tiny writing, or suicidal from the worldview, and yet he's so damn good you do it anyway. It's impossible to overstate how meticulously his work hangs together: the symmetries on a single page; the motifs that worm through it; the multiple counterpointed stories.

Chris Ware will be online here, from 1pm BST on Monday 19 August. Post your questions now and we'll see you next week on Monday to join in the conversation.

Edinburgh International Book FestivalChris WareComics and graphic novelsHannah Freeman
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