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Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.

Chris Ware

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Chris Ware
Age: 56
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
Language
Comics
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Developing

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Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
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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 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.
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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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Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.
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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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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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My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
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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 we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?
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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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