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American Cartoonist CHRIS WARE Awarded the Grand Prix of Angoulême 2021!

  Congratulations to CHRIS WARE for receiving this year’s Grand Prix Award at the Angouleme 2021 International Comics Festival! This is a very high honor & we think he really really deserves it :) Congrats Mr. Ware!!      

PEANUTS at 70 Video: Library of America Lecture Series

LOA Live: A conversation with Sarah Boxer, Jonathan Lethem, Clifford Thompson, and Chris Ware, moderated by Andrew Blauner. In 1950 Charles M. Schulz debuted a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture—hilarious, poignant, inimitable. The “Peanuts” characters continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. Andrew Blauner, editor of the LOA anthology “The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists […]

DESIGN MATTERS Podcast: Fresh Interview with Chris Ware & Chip Kidd

In this recent episode of the DESIGN MATTERS Podcast the Host, Debbie Millman, talks to Designer Chip Kidd and his good friend, the Graphic Novelist Chris Ware. They discuss their friendship, their working relationship, the state of Graphic novels & then Chris goes into depth about his new book, RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon 2019). Check it out! ————————————————————————————————————

COMIC BOOK NEWS Book Review: RUSTY BROWN by Chris Ware

Over on YouTube there’s a guy named Dan Shahin who has a show called COMIC BOOK NEWS. He covers a lot of different aspects of the comic book world. In this video here, he does a Book Review on RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon 2019) by Chris Ware. Check it out! ————————————————————————————————————

NPR Interviews CHRIS WARE About His New Book, RUSTY BROWN!

This post sort of has 2 parts to it that are both associated with Chris Ware. One, if you visit the Official NPR website you can read an article by Etelka Lehoczky. It’s basically an interview in a nice easy to read transcript-style. Here’s a LINK to the NPR Website if you’d like to read the article! Then, TWO, here’s a recent NPR A1 Podcast interview with Chris Ware where he talks about his new book, RUSTY BROWN (2019, Pantheon). […]

AM NEW YORK: Short Interview with Graphic Novelist Chris Ware on His New Book, RUSTY BROWN!

From “New Yorker” magazine covers to serialized comic strips to multi-item story boxes, graphic novelist Chris Ware can draw it all. His new work, “Rusty Brown,” is nearly 400 hundred pages, with Easter eggs and outtakes on the cover and dust jacket. It tells not one story, but several, all interconnected. He worked on it off and on for 19 years, and it is only volume one. Even with such massive projects, Ware, 51, told amNewYork that he still works […]

New York Times Book Review – RUSTY BROWN by Chris Ware (Pantheon)

Here’s some pretty amazing news we knew we had to share. Chris Ware’s new book, RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon), has been reviewed by the New York Times. This is seriously a big deal!! Here’s a LINK to check it out, just CLICK HERE! ————————————————————————————————————

CHRIS WARE Joins The VIRTUAL MEMORIES Podcast To Talk About RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon)

With the publication of RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon), Chris Ware joins the Virtual Memories Show Podcast to talk about how he and his art changed over the 18 (on-and-off) years since he began the project. We talk about the nature of memory, the experience of time, and the purpose of empathy (or empathy as the purpose of human life). We get into art and its role in organizing consciousness, the give-and-take of self-doubt, his impact on comics and other cartoonists, the […]

CHICAGO TRIBUNE Book Review: “RUSTY BROWN” by Chris Ware (Pantheon)

The new book by Chris Ware, RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon 2019), is starting to get some attention… whew! For example: Christopher Borrelli, a Book Reviewer over at The CHICAGO TRIBUNE, just wrote a very excellent (and super-detailed) review about Ware’s latest Graphic Novel. We just wanted to share it… so, please just CLICK HERE! ————————————————————————————————————

The GUARDIAN Talks With CHRIS WARE About His New Book, RUSTY BROWN

The Writer/Cartoonist Chris Ware has a new book out now titled, “RUSTY BROWN” (Pantheon). Recently, Chris met up with Sam Leith over at The Guardian & they had a great discussion about Art, Books, Creating Characters, Writer’s Block, and Life in General. Plus, they obviously talk about his new book… RUSTY BROWN! Here’s a LINK, check it out! Also, here’s some eye candy from the pages of RUSTY BROWN : ————————————————————————————————————