Chris Ware: Someone I'm Not | Art21 "Extended Play"
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- Episode #251: From his home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, artist Chris Ware shares motivations and challenges for telling stories from the perspectives of others in his work. "I distinctly remember being told by my teachers, if you draw women, you're colonizing them with your eyes," Ware recalls of art school. "Do you not draw women and then maintain an allegiance to some sort of experience that only you have had? Or do you try to expand your understanding and your empathy for other human beings?"
Though it might be uncomfortable, Ware strives to write from a place of empathy, expanding his stories to feature characters whose experiences differ from his own. Among these characters is African-American school teacher Joanne Cole, who appears in Ware's continuing comic series Rusty Brown. "I have to try to somehow push my limits and my understanding of how I feel through other people in what I'm doing," says the artist. "You risk falling on your face doing so, but that's a risk you have to take."
Known for his "New Yorker" magazine covers, Chris Ware is hailed as a master of the comic art form. His complex graphic novels tell stories about people in suburban Midwestern neighborhoods, poignantly reflecting on the role memory plays in constructing identity. Stories featuring many of Ware's protagonists-Quimby the Mouse, Rusty Brown, and Jimmy Corrigan-often first appear in serialized form, in publications such as "The New York Times," the "Guardian," or Ware's own ongoing comic book series "Acme Novelty Library," before being organized into their own stand-alone books.
Learn more about the artist at:
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CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster & Nick Ravich. Interview: Stanley Nelson. Editor: Morgan Riles. Camera: Brian Ashby, Ben Kolak, & Keith Walker. Sound: Richard K. Pooler. Artwork Courtesy: Chris Ware. Music: Chris Zabriskie. Special Thanks: Clara Ware & Marnie Ware.
"Extended Play" is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; Art21 Contemporary Council; and by individual contributors.
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I just received my big box of Building Stories in the mail. I had a long career as a cheap&fast illustrator. My admiration for Chris Ware is boundless.
Chris Ware is the greatest illustrator of our time.
This work, Building Stories, is breathtakingly good. One of a kind, a true masterpiece. If you haven't read it please try to pick up the big special edition as that's how it was meant to be read.
Love Chris Ware!!!
He makes excellent comic books.
Thank you for showing him work...I wish you'd shown more. The point of the extended play is to show their processes more? I wish you would just show an uncut minute of them working.
Love Chris Ware 🥰
He’s so talented. I almost want to give up after seeing his sketchbooks
I love the spread at 2:00, the top middle group looks fabulous, curious to see it in person! Great work!
"Colonize with our eyes." At least it rhymes
Interesting
lui aussi c'est un génie
Is this a new storyline? When is it published?
It's from Rusty Brown in Acme Novelty Library #16
Thanks!
So sad as he doesn't realize that a tandem bike is meant for 2...
Way to have a professional story board without the film industry at your disposal ,the work seems displaced and the art school a college of some kind,maybe if the artist had reached tenure say at university of st petersburg than a fourth industrial revolution wouldn't exactly exist in the way it does today.
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