Chris Ware Quotes


The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race. - Chris Ware


Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible. - Chris Ware


No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or eal art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. - Chris Ware Chris Ware


Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included. - Chris Ware


Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children. - Chris Ware


I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story. - Chris Ware


I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic. - Chris Ware


I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be "seen through," or, even worse, instantly hated. - Chris Ware


I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. - Chris Ware


During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older. - Chris Ware


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