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One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.
Chris Ware
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Chris Ware
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 28
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Omaha
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F. C. Ware
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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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Cartooning isn't really drawing, any more than talking is singing... The possible vocabulary of comics is by definition unlimited, the tactility of an experience told in pictures outside the boundaries of words, and the rhythm of how these drawings 'feel' when read is where the real art resides.
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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 guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?
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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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I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.
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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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As a cartoonist, my single goal is to create people with whom, for better or for worse - and regardless of how embarrassing it sounds - I can fall in love and somehow feel something deeply about, and through.
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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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I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be seen through, or, even worse, instantly hated.
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Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.
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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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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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My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
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