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Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
Chris Ware
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Chris Ware
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 28
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Cartoonist
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Omaha
Nebraska
F. C. Ware
F. Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware
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Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.
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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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I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
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My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
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The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.
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There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics.
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I have a preponderance to look smug in photos something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
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I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.
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