Comics are not illustration, any more than fiction is copywriting. Illustration is essentially the application of artistic technique or style to suit a commercial or ancillary purpose; not that cartooning can't be this (see any restaurant giveaway comic book or superhero media property as an example), but comics written and produced by a cartoonist sitting alone by him- or herself are not illustrations. They don't illustrate anything at all, they literally tell a story.
There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're … - Chris Ware
There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're …
- Chris Ware
Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it tha… - Chris Ware
Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it tha…
Comics are not a genre, but a developing language. - Chris Ware
Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race. - Chris Ware
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one do… - Chris Ware
It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one do…
I wouldn't classify television as "cool," because to me anything that involves the reader's consciousness to drive and carry a story is an "active" m… - Chris Ware
I wouldn't classify television as "cool," because to me anything that involves the reader's consciousness to drive and carry a story is an "active" m…
The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways. - Chris Ware
The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.
A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have. - Chris Ware
A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your… - Chris Ware
Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your…
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