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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.
Chris Ware
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Chris Ware
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 28
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Omaha
Nebraska
F. C. Ware
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Franklin Christenson Ware
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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 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 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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Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25
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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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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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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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Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise.
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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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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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Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
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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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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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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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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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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.
Chris Ware
I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.
Chris Ware
I have a preponderance to look smug in photos something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
Chris Ware
I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?
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I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
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