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The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking
With contributions by David M. Ball, Georgiana Banita, Margaret Fink Berman, Jacob Brogan, Isaac Cates, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Shawn Gilmore, Matt Godbey, Jeet Heer, Martha B. Kuhlman, Katherine Roeder, Peter R. Sattler, Marc Singer, Benjamin Widiss, and Daniel Worden
The Comics of Chris Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001 Guardian First Book Prize for the genre-defining Jimmy The Smartest Kid on Earth , Ware has received numerous accolades from both the literary and comics establishment. This collection addresses the range of Ware's work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s in The ACME Novelty Library and his acclaimed Jimmy Corrigan , to his most recent works-in-progress, “Building Stories” and “Rusty Brown.”
The Comics of Chris Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001 Guardian First Book Prize for the genre-defining Jimmy The Smartest Kid on Earth , Ware has received numerous accolades from both the literary and comics establishment. This collection addresses the range of Ware's work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s in The ACME Novelty Library and his acclaimed Jimmy Corrigan , to his most recent works-in-progress, “Building Stories” and “Rusty Brown.”
288 pages, Paperback
First published March 26, 2010
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February 17, 2012
I compiled the index.
April 10, 2015
If you are going to teach Ware's work, especially either Jimmy Corrigan or Building Stories, this is a really useful book with thoughtful essays on everything from his work in general to essays on his work with disabilities in Building Stories or family or memory or anything about his fabulous, absolutely breathtaking craft. It came out in 2010 so there's only three sort of preliminary essays on Building (that came out in 2012 but was serialized…) but they are great.
April 27, 2013
When I first became aware of this book I read the reviews on Amazon. One of them complained that, basically, this book over-intellectualizes the medium. I dismissed that as the bitterness of someone who was not familiar with or interested in literary theory. But turns out he/she was right.
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January 26, 2014Notes to Self: @ BRCC online library
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