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). […]
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 […]
Over at the Official TYPE DIRECTORS CLUB Website they have a few books on sale for a limited time. This is the chance to get some you might need at a great price. Here’s an excellent example: Typography 34: The Annual of the Type Directors Club Sale Price: $30.00 (Regular: $65.00) This beautiful 360-page book, designed by Chip Kidd, features full-color images of innovative type design in a wide range of categories including books, magazines, corporate identities, logos, stationery, annual […]
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! ————————————————————————————————————
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 […]
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 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 : ————————————————————————————————————
BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL 2019 Saturday, October 19th, 2019 (Starts at 5:15 PM) Graphic Designer Chip Kidd will be at this year’s 2019 BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL. He will be a part of a very special event titled, “THE PEANUTS PAPERS” where he will join Chris Ware, Andrew Blauner, & Clifford Thompson to discuss the impact that the comic strip PEANUTS, created by Charles M. Schultz, has had on the world. This lecture series will be moderated by Hillary Chute. The Boston […]
On June 20th, at 6:30 PM in New York City, the Designer Chip Kidd was honored to be a Special LIVE Guest on the “PERSON PLACE THING” Podcast. This happened at the MAD Museum in NYC. This was a LIVE EVENT (on stage) where the Host of the Podcast, Randy Cohen, interviewed Chip Kidd under the premise they he would discuss his favorite “Person”, then “Place” & then “Thing”. Here is PART ONE of the interview (and we’ll share PART […]
In stores now, Marvel Comics has just released SPIDER-MAN #1 written by J. J. Abrams & Henry Abrams. Illustrated by Sara Pichelli (Cover Art by Oliver Coipel). Now, this is a brand-new beginning for Spider-man & it’s a really great story line too so we’re all very excited!! Here’s the Official BOOK TRAILER for Spider-Man #1! But wait, there’s more! The cool thing is… the Book Designer, Chip Kidd, designed one of the variant covers & we’re really excited about […]