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4.42 AVERAGE
4.42 AVERAGE
I like Chris ware a lot to be honest I skim the book there's a lot of density in it and both text and images, the text retains his voice as do the images and you learn a bit more about the artist it's something to be sampled a bit and then put away and then sampled a bit again.
An amazing beast of a book. Part diary, slight sketchbook, collection of sundry projects, constructions and offshoots. If you're a fan it's stunning and full of tons of inspiring pieces and discussions of Ware's process, influences and goals. One of the most unique books I've read.
Formidable—literally (this book is HUGE) and figuratively. A fascinating behind-the-scenes journey to how one of our graphic novel masters came to be so.
Chris Ware's way of publishing stuff makes it insanely hard to keep up with everything he's ever done. I remember I found he was publishing new stuff a while back... as saturday strips... in the Guardian Magazine... (they were later ported to guardian dot com but reading Chris Ware in your browser is missing the point). So having all of this collected Ware content in one place is a blessing.
It's kind of like buying a b-sides and rarities collection instead of a greatest hits but it gives you an incredibly detailed an minute look at Chris Ware's path from comic at the college paper to award winning hero of folks who move graphic novels into the fiction section at Barnes and Noble.
There is a serious deluge of content here and while I have not read every bit of stuff in here (probably only a quarter of it if that) I feel satisfied with the work. I will keep coming back to it (with a damn magnifying glass because some of the type is miniscule!) and looking for new things in old strips. Big Ware Heads check it out!
It's kind of like buying a b-sides and rarities collection instead of a greatest hits but it gives you an incredibly detailed an minute look at Chris Ware's path from comic at the college paper to award winning hero of folks who move graphic novels into the fiction section at Barnes and Noble.
There is a serious deluge of content here and while I have not read every bit of stuff in here (probably only a quarter of it if that) I feel satisfied with the work. I will keep coming back to it (with a damn magnifying glass because some of the type is miniscule!) and looking for new things in old strips. Big Ware Heads check it out!
More a retrospective/ scrapbook of Ware’s life’s work than a memoir, which I was mistakenly expecting. There’s nothing like seeing his 60-panel cartoons on a 16”x24” page, though.