I lose faith every time I have to start a new page, and this is no joke. I've occasionally been criticized over the past couple of years for publicly "complaining" about how difficult drawing comics is, yet I've only mentioned it so that the younger cartoonists who are trying it out and finding it difficult and painful realize that they're not alone. There's not really any set way of learning how to do this, and it's always a struggle to improve, and, more importantly, see accurately whether or not one's work is communicating any shred of feeling or truth at all.
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
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.
Comics are not a genre, but a developing language. - Chris Ware
Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.
I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning … - Chris Ware
I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning …
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.
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…
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.
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…
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