Chris Ware Journalist Profile

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Good Old Ink and Paper | Chris Ware, Will Simpson

4 weeks ago | nybooks.com | Will Simpson |Chris Ware

In our May 29, 2025, issue, Chris Ware takes a close look at Olivier Schrauwen’s graphic novel Sunday and the formal qualities that make comics uniquely suited to transmitting thought. Ware writes: “In what other medium could one simultaneously inhabit the mind of a character and ‘see’ both his memories and imaginings?”I first read Ware’s series Acme Novelty Library as a teenager in the early 2000s.
Using Crypto ETF Pricing with Live Formulas in Excel & Googlesheets using Cryptosheets

Feb 20, 2024 | medium.com | Chris Ware

Learn how to access an easy to use crypto ETF dashboard and standalone pricing with automatic refreshable formulas in Excel and Googlesheets for your crypto portfolio including current and historical dataIntroductionThe dawn of 2024 has ushered in an exciting development in the financial markets: the introduction of Crypto ETFs listed on exchanges in the United States.
Acme Novelty Datebook: Volume Three

Jan 23, 2024 | drawnandquarterly.com | Chris Ware

The third and final installment of the artist’s facsimile sketchbook series. After over fifteen years deferral, delay and dawdling, the ink-and-paper cheerleader F. C. Ware finally succumbs to imaginary public pressure by concluding his tiresome experiment in reader trust with the third and final volume of secret notebooks and sketches spanning over thirty-seven years of bus rides, airport delays and telephone hold music.
Linguistic Shreds and Inchoate Images

Dec 15, 2023 | port-magazine.com | Chris Ware

The award-winning cartoonist meditates on the singular vitality of his art formI am a cartoonist. And, as such, occasionally I will be asked by a normal civilian why, since I also appear to be a sensate, functioning adult, am I not just a regular writer, or a regular artist? Fortunately, this is a question I also ask myself about every two and a half minutes, so I am always prepared with a concise and perfectly sane-sounding answer.
A legendary master of Japanese comics is finally available in English

Dec 9, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Chris Ware

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Perspective | A legendary master of Japanese comics is finally available in English

Dec 9, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Chris Ware

CommentSaveLike many other English-speaking graphic novelists, I have spent years trying to prove that the comics medium is a medium like any other. Neither a mere crutch for “reluctant” readers nor a simple vessel for superhero stories, it is, as my peers and I have sought to show, a form in which emotional, multivalent fiction about everyday adult life is at least … well, possible. It turns out we were about 50 years late.
Chris Ware’s “Harvest”

Nov 20, 2023 | newyorker.com | Chris Ware |Francoise Mouly

This Thursday, dining tables and social-media feeds across the country will be brimming with Thanksgiving feasts; Americans will snap pictures of everything from their perfectly arranged spreads to the messy—but strategically lit—leftovers of good times had, captioning their posts with personal reflections on gratitude and belonging, or with recaps of dinner-table debates as to whether the squash-and-onion tart or the sweet-potato-and-pecan pie stole the show.