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Recent articles about Chris Ware

Pictoglyphic time travelIssue 101, Summer 2021
Review

                                                If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s…                        
The art of small momentsIssue 96, Spring 2018
Review

                                                To call Chris Ware a genius seems obvious, banal, almost. So much praise has been…                        
To have and to holdIssue 88, Summer 2014
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	The challenges of digital publishing have galvanised a new spirit in book design and production. Is it just the decadent flourish of a disappearing format?            
A fraternity of triflesIssue 43, Spring 2002
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                                                With Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan upending expectations of the comic book form (and winning the…                        
Life’s little detoursIssue 78, Winter 2010
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                                            Eric Heiman salutes the ‘Edward Hopper of design and comic art’            
Ware: we are not worthyIssue 55, Spring 2005
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                                                Do we deserve someone as good as Chris Ware? Surely we are not worthy. Whether…                        
The stuff they likeIssue 43, Spring 2002
Review

                                                The Fall 2000 issue of The Ganzfeld was a 152-page pocket book; the latest is…                        
Density, magic, genius and lossIssue 40, Summer 2001
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                                                Chris Ware’s comic strip was originally published in Chicago’s alternative New City paper and Ware’s…                        
Smartest letterer on the planetIssue 45, Autumn 2002
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                                            Chicago’s comic book hero has a finely tuned gift for hand-lettering            
826 ValenciaIssue 48, Summer 2003
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	Chris Ware’s new mural tells the story of the human race            
Ware comes back with a darker narrativeIssue 59, Spring 2006
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                                                After a four-year hiatus spent repackaging earlier work for a mainstream audience, Chris Ware finally…                        

Recent blog posts about Chris Ware

Classic Collections – Type and lettering

22 December 2015
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Typography

For a limited time, you can buy a bundle of Eye typography issues – at a bargain price

This ‘Type and lettering’ bundle contains issues 37, 45, 50 and 72: all have a…

The cover that never was

6 May 2010
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines

Is Chris Ware’s rejected cover for Fortune 500 right on the money?

The world of graphic design is full of images that never were, writes John L…