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I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
- Chris Ware
#Friends
#Imagine
#Mom
#Realize
#Wife
I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be 'seen through,' or, even worse, instantly hated.
- Chris Ware
#Know
#People
#Through
#Well
#Worse
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
- Chris Ware
#Almost
#Art
#Free
#Personal
#World
Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
- Chris Ware
#Computer
#Drawing
#Make
#Me
#Sense
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
- Chris Ware
#Alien
#Creation
#Discussion
#Human
#Race
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
- Chris Ware
#Empathy
#Life
#Me
#Turn
#Who
There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.
- Chris Ware
#Everybody
#How
#Reality
#Sure
#Think
During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.
- Chris Ware
#Change
#Newspaper
#School
#Style
#Trying
The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
- Chris Ware
#Draw
#Power
#Real Power
#Real
#Writing
As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
- Chris Ware
#Future
#Learning
#Thinking
#Time
#World
I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
- Chris Ware
#Look
#Mouth
#Something
#Up
#Way
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.
- Chris Ware
#Alone
#Know
#Myself
#Nothing
#Solitude
Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
- Chris Ware
#Because
#Cartoons
#Drawings
#Read
#Real
I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.
- Chris Ware
#Be Nice
#Medical
#Nice
#Respect
#Way
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.
- Chris Ware
#Illustrator
#Myself
#Story
#Think
#Write
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