Jimmy Corrigan:The Smartest Kid on Earth had actually run in our local Newspaper The Austin American Statesman back it was still being published by Fantagraphics in comic book form. It was really a gutsy move on their part to give it some exposure and Ware had published some of his earliest art in our University of Texas newspaper 'The Daily Texan' which published some of his earliest Quimby the Mouse comic strips. Anyways Chris Ware has always been one of my favorite artists and he actually signed my copy of 'Jimmy Corrigian: The Smartest Kid on Earth some years back and I hope he has nothing but success in the future.
Chris Ware is an unbelievably humane storyteller, his empathetic view on humanity displayed in his works always moves me tremendously. Yes, he's an "comic book writer" , it doesn't really matter, just like Kubrick, Bergman or Fellini had directed films to tell the stories about human condition, Mr. Ware just happened to use comic strips to do the exactly same thing.
