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Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.

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Chris Ware
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: December 28
Artist
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Novelist
Visual Artist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
F. C. Ware
F. Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware
Comics
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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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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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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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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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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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My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
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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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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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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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Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
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There's something very strange and wrong-seeming about drawing realistic eyeballs in comics, at least in the mode of comics where action is carried more by the movement of the characters rather than where narration links disparately framed selected images.
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The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.
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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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Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
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Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25
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I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.
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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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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.
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I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?
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