US cartoonist Chris Ware on drawing inspiration from everyday acts of humanity • FRANCE 24 English

His intricate, careful depictions of modern life have won him accolades in the US and the UK, as well as the Angoulême International Comics Festival Grand Prize in 2021. Chris Ware sits down with FRANCE 24 as his cartoons and graphic novels are displayed at the Pompidou Centre's public library in Paris. He tells us how a childhood absorbed in Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip prompted a fascination for the "mechanical nature" of a story told in words and pictures. We also discuss how the intimate bond between writer and reader makes books powerful, subversive objects that still manage to bother those who seek to censor alternative viewpoints.
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[@cha5]

Jimmy Corrigan:The Smartest Kid on Earth had actually run in our local Newspaper The Austin American Statesman back it was still being published by Fantagraphics in comic book form. It was really a gutsy move on their part to give it some exposure and Ware had published some of his earliest art in our University of Texas newspaper 'The Daily Texan' which published some of his earliest Quimby the Mouse comic strips. Anyways Chris Ware has always been one of my favorite artists and he actually signed my copy of 'Jimmy Corrigian: The Smartest Kid on Earth some years back and I hope he has nothing but success in the future.

[@myindigoblues5796]

He looks like his cartoons. Love his style

[@Chiewkovsky]

Chris Ware is an unbelievably humane storyteller, his empathetic view on humanity displayed in his works always moves me tremendously. Yes, he's an "comic book writer" , it doesn't really matter, just like Kubrick, Bergman or Fellini had directed films to tell the stories about human condition, Mr. Ware just happened to use comic strips to do the exactly same thing.

[@hughcards]

I knew Chris back in college. Nice guy.

[@DSZerouki]

👍I spent a lot of time in the Centre Beaubourg as a student.

[@XAVIERCUERVO]

genius man i love your work thank you

[@kerry8880]

❤