Monday 6 January 2014

Chris Ware

Image from http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/in-conversation-with-graphic-novelist-chris-ware/

Whilst I love the work of Ware there id an obvious difference in our work (and so their should be). It is not stylistically that he inspires me, it is just the simple effective way he conveys narrative in sequence.

additionally Ware works with primarily speech/dialogue included. Again this is not how I work, but what I can take away is that you can gather a story without them. Visually there is a story being told. I think his work is a great example of the basics done well; reminding me not to over do it or not to "trick out" my work too much.


As wiht what I am communicating in my work; Ware's work is based on figures, human interactions, the interplay of people within their environments. The juxtaposition between person and their space.


Saturday 4 January 2014

David Ball on Chris Ware

"The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001 Guardian First Book Prize for the genre-defining Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware has received numerous accolades from both the literary and comics establishment. This collection addresses the range of Ware's work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s in The ACME Novelty Library and his acclaimed Jimmy Corrigan, to his most recent works-in-progress, "Building Stories" and "Rusty Brown."
Taken from http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1292