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.
Monday, 6 January 2014
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
Taken from http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1292
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