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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
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Omaha
Nebraska
F. C. Ware
F. Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware
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The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
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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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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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Real drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw a picture of the idea of the object. You have to draw the word that you are picturing, then you have to mix in specifics with it for it to work as a story. But you are still working with drawn words.
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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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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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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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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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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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The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.
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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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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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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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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 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 guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?
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Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
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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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