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

Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.

- 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 …

- 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.

- 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

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

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.

- 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…

- Chris Ware