They are acclaimed artist Chris Ware; and the city’s cultural historian, Tim Samuelson.
Tim Samuelson, cultural historian emeritus: This was an interest that we both shared, but Chris was able to put it into form as an exhibit. I could have never put together something like this.
Even where there’s comics pages I know well and have read since a kid, when I see them on the wall like this it’s like, “Oh, wow.”
Chris Ware, artist: A comic strip really is a visual two-dimensional rat maze, so I tried to create a three-dimensional analog to that and to use every available spot that I could because in comics you’re likely to see a dialogue balloon here and there and an image behind, so I wanted to use the entire walls and not just have everything be a dried bathtub ring of imagery that gets dreary.