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Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

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Chris Ware
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 28
Artist
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Novelist
Visual Artist
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Omaha
Nebraska
F. C. Ware
F. Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware
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