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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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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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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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Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
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