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

Chris Ware

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Chris Ware
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 28
Artist
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
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Omaha
Nebraska
F. C. Ware
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Franklin Christenson Ware
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