Chris Ware is such a seminal and visionary artist. A genuine man of ideas. So few artists break as much new ground as he does. One gets the impression that Chris won't fully hit his stride until he's 79 years old. Bravo! We need more brilliant Obsessive/Compulsives like him.
i love chris complexity. i actually love the way his complex ideas or senarios are combined with his texture and style of drawing. His work is so hard to read but its fantastic. anyway its worth it.
Great stuff. No other comic currently published are as significant. Nowadays I'll take only buy ANL, Blade of the Immortal and DC's Showcase Presents collections.
Sorry but "alright" is an understatement in Ware's case, I'd say "genius" is closer to the truth if you've ever read 'Jimmy Corrigan' or any of his current Acme Novelty Library work.
Ware's fake ads are indeed bleakly nihilistic in the way you describe, but I wouldn't say this is his overall view on life. That's not the feeling I get from his stories, anyway, e.g. Jimmy Corrigan.
Well, Crumb's stuff strikes me as gleefully perverse whereas Ware's is often just bleakly nihilistic. Have you seen Ware's (fake) classified ad for the 'Happy Family Appliques' that can be affixed to windows to provide the false appearance of a laughing, loving family? Inside, though, we see a man demanding oral sex with a pistol pointed at the victim's head. I'd say that's explicit. And very, very dark.(And extremely funny partly because it's so far past our line of taboo.)
Sexually explicit? Christ how sheltered are you? R. Crumb's work makes Ware's stuff look like kids books on that front, and then there's the porno comix found in any store...
I go to bed with Jimmy Corrigan & have done for some time, today I wondered if it's boring, I never thought that before, I still don't know. I'm surpirsed to see Chris hand drawing I thought his art was computer genertated grafix. I like Jimmy Corrigan, I have to work at the format, wondering which image is next in sequence & some writing is almost illegible, but the stories and characters are fab, his mothers voice I have noticed in my head is the voice of Howards mom from bib bang theory.
