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Mar 05, 2010
“ That’s how art history and literary history gets made: by living artists connecting with the past.
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Feb 03, 2010
» Dash Shaw on Chris Ware originals
Ware’s exhibit at the Whitney Biennial was a life-changing experience for me. The under drawing, measuring… It’s shocking how raw the drawing is. His drawings look so clean when they’re shrunk and colored in print. In the originals they look so labored over, sometimes even crude. You can see the struggle, his thinking on the page. The Quimby original at Angoulême was such an object; the cut zipatone, the scale, the juxtaposition between the interior panels and the more illustrative background landscape. It was engaging by itself, beyond just being preparatory work for a print book.
Jan 31, 2010
“ …whereas Chris Ware talks about cartooning as typography, I think of it as calligraphy. I like the panel borders, lettering, brush or pen lines to all read as the author’s handwriting.
Oct 27, 2009
Jul 27, 2009
“ Comics is about memory. because when you draw a comic strip you’re drawing more the way you remember things than the way that you see them, necessarily. You’re drawing memories of objects. You draw idealized versions of objects as opposed to showing them specifically the way they are to your eye.
Jun 24, 2009
“ What you do with comics, essentially, is take pieces of experience and freeze them in time….The moments are inert, lying there on the page in the same way that sheet music lies on the printed page. In music you breathe life into the composition by playing it. In comics you make the strip come alive by reading it, by experiencing it beat by beat as you would playing music…
Jan 27, 2009
Aug 13, 2008
“ One of the fundamental tools of comics is the wordless re-creation of the rhythms of human gesture, most easily accomplished by maintaining a fixed scale of character from one panel to the next, so that the only changes the eye registers are in the variations of posture between the repeating figures (a style more commonly seen before comics began imitating the camerawork of movies).
— Chris Ware on Rodolphe Töpffer (via)
May 08, 2008
Mar 17, 2008
Feb 14, 2008
“ Comics…are sort of a third language. They are not a combination of writing and art; in fact, one doesn’t even need words. The lifeblood of comics is, in a lot of ways, rhythmic pictures.
Feb 02, 2008
Chris Ware blue pencil/ink for the New Yorker
god…this isn’t drawing—this is architecture
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