Chris Ware's works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression.
25 Facts About Chris Ware
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Chris Ware tends to use a vivid color palette and realistic, meticulous detail.
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Chris Ware's earliest published strips appeared in the late 1980s on the comics page of The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin.
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Chris Ware has acknowledged that being included in Raw gave him confidence and inspired him to explore printing techniques and self-publishing.
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The series featured a combination of new material as well as reprints of work Chris Ware had done for the Texan and the Chicago weekly paper Newcity.
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Chris Ware's work appeared originally in Newcity before he moved on to his current "home", the Chicago Reader.
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Chris Ware was the editor of The Best American Comics 2007, the second installment devoted to comics in the Best American series.
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In 2007, Chris Ware curated an exhibition for the Phoenix Art Museum focused on the non-comic work of five contemporary cartoonists.
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Chris Ware's art reflects early 20th-century American styles of cartooning and graphic design, shifting through formats from traditional comic panels to faux advertisements and cut-out toys.
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Chris Ware has spoken about finding inspiration in the work of artist Joseph Cornell and cites Richard McGuire's strip Here as a major influence on his use of non-linear narratives.
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Chris Ware once designed a zoetrope to be cut out and constructed by the reader in order to watch a Quimby "silent movie".
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Chris Ware's ingenuity is neatly shown in this willingness to break from the confines of the page.
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Chris Ware's Building Stories was serialized in a host of different venues.
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Chris Ware is an ardent collector of ragtime paraphernalia and occasionally publishes a journal devoted to the music titled The Ragtime Ephemeralist.
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Chris Ware has designed covers and posters for non-ragtime performers such as Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire and 5ive Style.
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In October 2005 Chris Ware designed the elaborate cover art for Penguin Books' new edition of Voltaire's Candide.
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Chris Ware was commissioned by Chip Kidd to design the inner machinations of the bird on the cover of Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
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Chris Ware created poster art for Tamara Jenkins' 2007 film The Savages and her 2018 film Private Life.
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In 2010, Chris Ware designed the cover for Fortune magazine's "Fortune 500" issue, but it was rejected.
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Brady wrote in his blog that Chris Ware said at the panel he "accepted the job because it would be like doing the [cover for the] 1929 issue of the magazine".
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In 2011, Chris Ware created the poster for the US release of the 2010 film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
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In 2002, Chris Ware became the first comics artist to be invited to exhibit at Whitney Museum of American Art biennial exhibition.
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Chris Ware's work was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2006 and at the University of Nebraska's Sheldon Museum of Art, in 2007.
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In 2006, Chris Ware received a USA Hoi Fellow grant from United States Artists.
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In 2013, Chris Ware received the 2013 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for Building Stories and was finalist for Jan Michalski Prize for Literature and Los Angeles Times Book Prize.