Chris Ware Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Understand, Thing

• Sometimes I get worried I’m getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I’m trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

  Chris Ware

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sometimes, Trying, Possible

• No one blames themselves if they don’t understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or “real” art; they simply think it’s a bad cartoon.

  Chris Ware

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, Real, Think

• Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

  Chris Ware

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading, Interested

• Lately, I can’t shake the feeling that I’ve been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can’t account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

  Chris Ware

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Myself, Feeling

• I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the ‘honesty’ of the story.

  Chris Ware

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in Think, Music

• I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

  Chris Ware

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Realize, Wife

• I guess I just don’t like being physically in front of people I don’t know very well, because I expect to be “seen through,” or, even worse, instantly hated.

  Chris Ware

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expect, People

• I don’t think there’s any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don’t like or respect in at least some way or another. We’re all marginal laborers – we’re practically medical oddities – so I don’t see why we can’t all be nice to each other.

  Chris Ware

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Nice, Independent

• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and “style” as much as I could, since I knew that I’d calcify as I got older.

  Chris Ware

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Change

• Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they’re 100% personal.

  Chris Ware

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personal, Free, World

Chris Ware (11)

Birth:	28th December, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist

About

Chris Ware was born in  Omaha, Nebraska. He is an American  cartoonist, notable for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. His works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression. His 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. He was the editor of The Best American Comics 2007, the second installment devoted to comics in the Best American series.

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