The Past Has Never Been Better for Chris Ware

"...A few facts about Chris Ware: He's 33 years old. He lives in Chicago...."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Chris Ware and Seth at the Texas Book Festival

Two titans of sequential art, gabbing craftwise in Austin on Saturday

"...Chris Ware, former promising cartoonist for UT’s Daily Texan, current..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Arts Post

Building Hive Stories: Ware Burns Bright and Burns' Bright Wares

Two of the world's best cartoonists are at BookPeople on Thursday

"...What am I supposed to write about Chris Ware's Building Stories? That it's transcendent? That it's nonpareil?..."

Oct. 24, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Books

Gift guide

"...Chris Ware by Daniel Raeburn..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two

Robert Rodriguez, Chris Ware, Ben Sargent -- what do these men have in common? They all worked as cartoonists for The Daily Texan.

"...New York Times Arts section featured a piece about Chris Ware and his graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest..."

April 6, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Comics? Sequential Art? Literature for Your Visual Cortex?

A year's worth of goodness for the smarter parts of your brain

"...It won't be able to contain the entirety of Chris Ware's Building Stories...."

Oct. 2, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Words & Pictures by Martin Wagner

"...The comics of Chris Ware should be familiar to many Austinites. His eye-popping..."

June 30, 1995 Arts Feature

Color and Brightness

Gift guide

"...by Chris Ware..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Books Feature by Mark Fagan

Graphically Speaking

People in the publishing industry call them "funny books." We call them graphic novels, and they're "funny" in quite a few ways.

"...fit neatly into defined categories. This month, Pantheon publishes Chris Ware's surreal Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth;..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Mother's Mouth

"...anyone else is going to do something like what Chris Ware does at the level that Chris Ware does..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more

"...East Texas mystery Bluebird, Bluebird; and celebrated graphic novelists Chris Ware and Seth will attend, the former bringing his..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

This machine is temperamental but it will give you things

"...“discordant effects” than with the “keen observation.” Because of Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan, to name the most obvious example..."

July 10, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Za Gotcha

Austin's Pizza doesn't suck, though their old logo lead Brenner to think otherwise.

"...tasted any of their fine product, I'd only been aware of Austin's Pizza via their logo – glimpsed in..."

Nov. 7, 2007 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ten Years of "Unreal Estate" at Cloud Tree Gallery

Oh, the places you only wish you could go!

"...about it, I’d been looking at the sketchbooks of Chris Ware. And he had some really nice building portraits,..."

Aug. 10, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Studio Visits: Robert Jackson Harrington

Enamored of the idea that we create our own spaces, this Austin artist makes a studio of his lap

"...AC: Yes! There's actually a short essay by Chris Ware where he reckons with the difficulty of drawing..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

Beck

"...being the artwork and design by Marcel Dzama. Like Chris Ware's Building Stories graphic novel, the packaging becomes something..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Music Review by Graham Reynolds

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...darkest lights) were Daniel Clowes' Wilson (Drawn & Quarterly); Chris Ware's Lint, aka ACME Novelty Library #20 (Drawn &..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Wish(fulfilled) List 2010

Queer Jews should have everything they wanted by now

"...3. Acme Novelty Library #20 "Lint" by Chris Ware. Mere words cannot adequately describe the value of..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

A By-No-Means-Comprehensive List of Austinite Comics Writers and Artists

Some of the most illustrious comics creators to have made their home in Austin sometime between 1960 and 2006

"...Chris Ware – comic strips Quimby the Mouse, et al...."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature

Page Two: Loss Upon Loss

Legendary cartoonist, historian, and Texan Jack Jackson passes on

"...speech, and a commitment to principles. The truly gifted Chris Ware, I believe, attacked me as well. Not my..."

June 16, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Live on Paper

When he's not covering canvas with acrylic-based images of Japanese toys and Italian scooters and good old American action-figures, Tim Doyle dabbles in the art of the comic book, distilling his day-by-day existence into three black-and-white segments each in monthly issues of Amazing Adult Fantasy.

"...naturally -- especially in the realm of comic books. "Chris Ware does all that lettering by hand, can you..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...one of the earliest articles about Daily Texan cartoonist Chris Ware, and in 1986 I wrote about the Austin..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column

Postmarks

The Clark-Madison brouhaha continues amidst tributes to Mambo John and more.

"...one of the earliest articles about Daily Texan cartoonist Chris Ware, and in 1986 I wrote about the Austin..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Column

King City Catmaster Launches 'Multiple Warheads' in the ATX

We mean: Brandon Graham's at Austin Books tomorrow, people

"...goddamnit: The very same fate that insists on having Chris Ware and Charles Burnsappearing across town at BookPeople on..."

Oct. 24, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sammy and Jonny and Russell and You

Domy Books fetes a pair of PictureBox panjandrums

"...(This, the night before graphic gods Chris Ware and Charles Burns are at BookPeople.)..."

Oct. 24, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mr. Brown Will Come to Town

Comic-book creator Jeffrey Brown is a featured guest at this year's Staple! The Independent Media Expo

"...context entirely) called paroxysms of passion. And news that Chris "Achewood" Onstad will also attend the scene is being..."

March 6, 2009 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Duo From Drawn and Quarterly

'Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea' and 'Drawn and Quarterly Showcase #3'

"...Maybe they had to take a breather after releasing Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Datebook and Adrian Tomine's Scrapbook, two..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Failure to Communicate: Signs Austin Chronicle Employees Have Left Around the Office

"...Stout posted this excerpt from cartoonist (and former Austinite) Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan in our production office 10 years..."

Jan. 30, 2020 Photo Gallery

Eating My Way Through Two and a Half Decades of Comics

The Drawn and Quarterly 25th Anniversary Anthology

"...comics-loving humans so passionately involved with the company that Chris Oliveros had the (Quixotic? temporarily insane?) impulse to start..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...peppered him with questions cribbed from the likes of Chris Nicholas of Staple!, Tim Doyle of Nakatomi Inc., Kelly..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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