Page 16 - Chris Ware News Today

Sweeping surveys, whiz-bang storytelling, and moments of quiet reflection speak to a range of comics fans.

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A cartoonist discusses his new show about the development of an American art form.

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...

Frito-Lay Workers Celebrate Successful Strike: We Definitely Have Leverage Right Now On 7/24/21 at 7:30 PM EDT Workers at a Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, agreed on Friday to end a strike that had dragged on for nearly three weeks over issues that had persisted for years, voting to ratify a contract that will increase their pay and give them additional time off. With companies struggling to fill empty positions in the wake of the pandemic, and job postings at their highest levels since 2000...

Marc Vitali: These are not the images of Chicago you’d see in a visitor’s guide. Still, the odd corners the paintings depict are as much a part of the city as Navy Pier or the Museum campus. Artist Andy Paczos pedals a bike that hauls his canvas and supplies. He heads to the same location he’s worked at for months – a corner of the Van Buren Street bridge near Wacker Drive. He sets up his easel. And gets to work on a highly detailed painting.    A painting of a fork in the Chicago ri...

Le Festival international de la bande dessinée consacre l’auteur américain de « Jimmy Corrigan » et de « Building Stories ».

Rusty Brown By Chris Ware. Jonathan Cape/Penguin Random House, £25, $35 If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s books still a compelling issue, few have a claim as strong as that of Chris Ware. His carefully drawn and extended fictions (such as Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories) chronicle the anxieties of American life with degrees of excruciating internal self-examination and forens...

02/06/2021 - The Portuguese director details some of the several projects currently on his plate

Dan Frank, adventurous book editor, dies at 67 Mr. Frank collaborated with Joseph Mitchell on what became a critically celebrated best seller in 1992. by Alex Traub (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Dan Frank, who as editorial director of Pantheon Books discerned in journalism and comics the potential for enduring books and introduced authors like Joseph Mitchell to tens of thousands of readers, died on May 24 in Manhattan. He was 67. His death, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, was caused by cancer, his w...