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 “in pencil and ink on paper, just like in the old days,” but now adds color digitally, thereby alleviating the “weekly migraines.”
His characters are Midwesterners, like Ware who lives outside Chicago, and many of them are flawed — depressed, lonely, judgmental, violent, even hateful. But they are all striving. Ware said he hopes our baser traits, even if they are somehow inherent to our humanity, are ultimately eradicable. “Otherwise, what’s the point?” he said. “It takes great effort to be good, and hardly any to be bad. I find it endlessly frustrating that our culture seems to find the latter much more interesting than the former.”
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