From “New Yorker” magazine covers to serialized comic strips to multi-item story boxes, graphic novelist Chris Ware can draw it all.

His new work, “Rusty Brown,” is nearly 400 hundred pages, with Easter eggs and outtakes on the cover and dust jacket. It tells not one story, but several, all interconnected. He worked on it off and on for 19 years, and it is only volume one.

Even with such massive projects, Ware, 51, told amNewYork that he still works “in pencil and ink on paper, just like in the old days,” but now adds color digitally, thereby alleviating the “weekly migraines.”

His characters are Midwesterners, like Ware who lives outside Chicago, and many of them are flawed — depressed, lonely, judgmental, violent, even hateful. But they are all striving. Ware said he hopes our baser traits, even if they are somehow inherent to our humanity, are ultimately eradicable. “Otherwise, what’s the point?” he said. “It takes great effort to be good, and hardly any to be bad. I find it endlessly frustrating that our culture seems to find the latter much more interesting than the former.”

So, Please check out this link where amNewYork talks to Chris Ware about his new book. Just CLICK HERE!

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Over at the Official TYPE DIRECTORS CLUB Website they have a few books on sale for a limited time. This is the chance to get some you might need at a great price. Here’s an excellent example:

Typography 34: The Annual of the Type Directors Club
Sale Price: $30.00 (Regular: $65.00)

This beautiful 360-page book, designed by Chip Kidd, features full-color images of innovative type design in a wide range of categories including books, magazines, corporate identities, logos, stationery, annual reports, video and web graphics, and posters. Typography 34 also includes an historic black-and-white reproduction of the catalogue of winners from TDC’s tenth annual awards exhibition in 1964.

For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Typography 34 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work produced during 2012. The winning designs for the 59th annual Type Directors Club competition (TDC59) were selected from approximately 2,300 international submissions.

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Here’s some pretty amazing news we knew we had to share. Chris Ware’s new book, RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon), has been reviewed by the New York Times. This is seriously a big deal!!

Here’s a LINK to check it out, just CLICK HERE!

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With the publication of RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon), Chris Ware joins the Virtual Memories Show Podcast to talk about how he and his art changed over the 18 (on-and-off) years since he began the project. We talk about the nature of memory, the experience of time, and the purpose of empathy (or empathy as the purpose of human life).

We get into art and its role in organizing consciousness, the give-and-take of self-doubt, his impact on comics and other cartoonists, the effect of parenthood on his work and life, his mid-western roots & the allure of The New Yorker, and books that changed his life (whether he read them or not). We also discuss that synthetic, sorta artificial style he’s known for and what it permits him to do in his comics, the comic strip diary he keeps and why it can’t be published, how cartooning compares to the origins of American architecture, the alchemist relationship between drawings and type size in his comics, why art schools should get back to teaching figure drawing, and plenty more!

So, here it is down below… please check it out!

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The new book by Chris Ware, RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon 2019), is starting to get some attention… whew! For example: Christopher Borrelli, a Book Reviewer over at The CHICAGO TRIBUNE, just wrote a very excellent (and super-detailed) review about Ware’s latest Graphic Novel.

We just wanted to share it… so, please just CLICK HERE!

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The Writer/Cartoonist Chris Ware has a new book out now titled, “RUSTY BROWN” (Pantheon). Recently, Chris met up with Sam Leith over at The Guardian & they had a great discussion about Art, Books, Creating Characters, Writer’s Block, and Life in General. Plus, they obviously talk about his new book… RUSTY BROWN!

Here’s a LINK, check it out!

Also, here’s some eye candy from the pages of RUSTY BROWN :

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BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL 2019

Saturday, October 19th, 2019  (Starts at 5:15 PM)

Graphic Designer Chip Kidd will be at this year’s 2019 BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL. He will be a part of a very special event titled, “THE PEANUTS PAPERS” where he will join Chris Ware, Andrew Blauner, & Clifford Thompson to discuss the impact that the comic strip PEANUTS, created by Charles M. Schultz, has had on the world. This lecture series will be moderated by Hillary Chute.

The Boston Book Festival
32R Essex Street
Suite 5
Cambridge, MA    02139

phone: (857) 259-6999
fax: (617) 249-2053
email: info@bostonbookfest.org
follow us: @bostonbookfest

For More Information, Just CLICK HERE!

Just a side note:

Chip will probably have copies of his “ONLY WHAT’S NECESSARY: CHARLES M SCHULZ & THE ART OF PEANUTS” Book to sign, just sayin’!

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