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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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Omaha
Nebraska
F. C. Ware
F. Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware
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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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Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.
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Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
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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 mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
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I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.
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No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or real art they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
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The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
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Lately, I cant shake the feeling that Ive been living a dream for the last 10 years or so I cant account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.
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I wouldn't classify television as cool, because to me anything that involves the reader's consciousness to drive and carry a story is an active medium, and anything that sort of just pours into the eyeballs and ears is the opposite.
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Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.
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