Columns
Wednesday, January 23 2013
The Conscious Materiality of Chris Ware's Building Stories
If the digital ereader has made anything clear, it's that the physicality of the book is, for most practical purposes, incidental, an accident of time and place. Building Stories, by contrast, is deliberately material in a way that most books are not.
Thursday, January 12 2012
Killing the Page: Comics' Digital Conundrum
There are thorny creative and artistic questions to be addressed in the development of comics for e-reading; we'll have to get beyond models that see the digital as little more than an adaptation of the analog.
Wednesday, March 10 2010
Creator: Various
In comics not everyone can write nor draw (nor ink, color nor letter). So, there will always be 'great' works that cannot be attributed to a single talented contributor.
Reviews
Monday, February 4 2008
The Acme Novelty Library no. 18
If Ware's skill as an artist is to find the never-ending manifestations of sorrow and melancholy, his failure as a writer is to find meaning or resolution within them.
News
Thursday, November 15 2012
'Building Stories' Takes Chris Ware’s Comics Out of the Box
Building Stories is a kind of do-it-yourself narrative: a set of stories that revolve around the residents of a Chicago apartment building, and at the same time, a meditation on how stories are built.
