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Mar 05, 2010
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That’s how art history and literary history gets made: by living artists connecting with the past.

Feb 03, 2010
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Jan 31, 2010
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…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
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Jul 27, 2009
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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
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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
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Aug 13, 2008
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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
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Mar 17, 2008
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Feb 14, 2008
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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.

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Feb 02, 2008
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Chris Ware blue pencil/ink for the New Yorker

god…this isn’t drawing—this is architecture

via www.adambaumgoldgallery.com

Chris Ware blue pencil/ink for the New Yorker

god…this isn’t drawing—this is architecture

via www.adambaumgoldgallery.com

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