This was eventually published in 1988 as a prestige format comic book from Eclipse Comics, and its publication even led to a brief correspondence between Ware and Timothy Leary. In addition to numerous daily strips under different titles, Ware also had a weekly satirical science fiction serial in the paper titled Floyd Farland: Citizen of the Future. 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. After him, a lot of really started to scramble and go, 'Holy, I think I have to try harder.'' Career īorn in Omaha, Nebraska, Ware resides in the Chicago area of Illinois. He is considered by some critics and fellow notable illustrators and writers, such as Dave Eggers, to be among the best currently working in the medium Canadian graphic-novelist Seth has said, 'Chris really changed the playing field.

Ware often refers to himself in the publicity for his work in self-effacing, even withering tones. His lettering and images are often elaborate and sometimes evoke the ragtime era or another early 20th-century American design style. He tends to use a vivid color palette and realistic, meticulous detail. His works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression. National Cartoonists Society Award: 1999, 2013įranklin Christenson ' Chris' Ware (born December 28, 1967) is an American cartoonist known for his Acme Novelty Library series (begun 1994) and the graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), Building Stories (2012) and Rusty Brown (2019).

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