The American comic artist Chris Ware is a self-described “nervous guy.” The New Yorker cartoonist and author of beloved series such as Jimmy Corrigan and Rusty Brown is the first to admit that he ...

Last Friday, the Stanford Storytelling Project and the Stanford Speakers Bureau brought graphic novelists Chris Ware (“Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth”) and Marjane Satrapi (“Persepolis”) to ...

Reading a single page of a comic book takes about 15 seconds. Creating it, on the other hand, takes 40 hours on average, according to artist and illustrator Chris Ware. A new show on view at the ...

“It’s got a certain degree of chutzpah and pretension to it,” says cartoonist Chris Ware of his latest work, Building Stories, a complex, multipart graphic novel whose contents fill an entire box and ...

From June through October this year, the Bibliothèque publique d’information (Bpi) at the Centre Pompidou is honoring American comic artist and author Chris Ware with a retrospective exhibition ...

From dropping letters in a mailbox to waving to neighbors and colleagues, the postwoman in Chris Ware’s new set of U.S.

Spread from Chris Ware’s Monograph, published by Rizzoli (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) He begins his origin story with his grandfather, who was editor of the Omaha World-Herald where ...

On the eve of a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Oak Park cartoonist (along with some of his contemporaries) offers an introduction to a genre that is successfully blurring the ...

Roughly two decades ago, about a week after Chris Ware completed “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth,” the sprawling graphic novel that cemented the Oak Park artist’s reputation as the most ...

We don’t usually bother talking about posters here on Vulture, because there’s usually hardly anything to talk about: Either posters feature a bunch of floating heads, or they feature some gag ...

Chris Ware is on tour for the release of his astonishing new book, “Building Stories,” so he was at the Strand this week with fellow-cartoonist Charles Burns (who himself just released “The Hive,” the ...