Over on YouTube there’s a guy named Dan Shahin who has a show called COMIC BOOK NEWS. He covers a lot of different aspects of the comic book world.
In this video here, he does a Book Review on RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon 2019) by Chris Ware. Check it out!
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This post sort of has 2 parts to it that are both associated with Chris Ware. One, if you visit the Official NPR website you can read an article by Etelka Lehoczky. It’s basically an interview in a nice easy to read transcript-style.
Here’s a LINK to the NPR Website if you’d like to read the article!
Then, TWO, here’s a recent NPR A1 Podcast interview with Chris Ware where he talks about his new book, RUSTY BROWN (2019, Pantheon).
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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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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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On September 24th, 2019 (at 7:00 pm) Chris Ware & Marnie Galloway will be making an appearance for the release of Ware’s latest Graphic Novel Book, “RUSTY BROWN” (Pantheon).
A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories.
“Rusty Brown” is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of a couple people in the first half of a single Midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.
CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged to be the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and fourteen-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by The Times (London) in 2009. Building Stories was named a Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year in 2012 by both The New York Times and Time magazine. Ware is an irregular contributor to The New Yorker, and his original drawings have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in piles behind his worktable in Oak Park, Illinois. In 2016 he was featured in the PBS documentary series Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, and in 2017 an eponymous monograph of his work was published by Rizzoli.
Chris Ware will be in conversation with Marnie Galloway.
Marnie Galloway is a Chicago cartoonist who makes literary & poetic comics that experiment with book form and narrative structure. She is best known for her Xeric Award winning wordless comic, “In the Sounds and Seas,” which made the Notable Comics list in Best American Comics, and was highlighted in the Best Comics of 2016 by the AV Club. Other comics of note include Particle/Wave, published by So What Press; Burrow, self published with support from the Pulitzer Arts Foundation; and Slightly Plural, a short collection of poetry comics. She served as an organizer for CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, for four years, and has had comics published by the New York Times, Cricket Magazine, Saveur Magazine, Cambridge University Press, and Ask Magazine, where she currently works as the staff cartoonist. marniegalloway.com
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OH YEAH, Here’s a LINK to the Official FACEBOOK EVENT Page for this Book Release/Signing.
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This post is just a quick shout out directed towards Chris Ware to congratulate him on getting a great book review over at KIRKUS REVIEWS. Here’s a LINK to check it out, so please do that.
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Here’s a quick post to share a very interesting interview done by PUBLISHERS WEEKLY with Chris Ware about his new book titled, “Rusty Brown” (Pantheon, 2019).
Here’s the LINK to the article.
Please be sure to share this on your favorite social media!
The press on this new book has been amazing! Thank you PW & Congrats to Chris Ware too!
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September 25th, 2019 (Opens at 7:00 PM)
19th Century Club
178 Forest Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60301
To Buy Tickets, Just CLICK HERE!
The Book Table Presents: Chris Ware in Conversation with Chip Kidd! Their main focus will be talking about Ware’s latest book, RUSTY BROWN.
RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon, 2019) is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of three complete consciousnesses in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.
CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged to be the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and fourteen-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by The Times (London) in 2009. Building Stories was named a Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year in 2012 by both The New York Times and Time magazine. Ware is an irregular contributor to The New Yorker, and his original drawings have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in piles behind his worktable in Oak Park, Illinois. In 2016 he was featured in the PBS documentary series Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, and in 2017 an eponymous monograph of his work was published by Rizzoli.
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