The first & much-anticipated monograph by multi-award winning cartoonist & graphic novelist Chris Ware chronicling his influential quarter-century career While illustrator Chris Ware s singular body of work is often categorized as comics his trailblazing work defies genre Whether he is writing graphic novels making paintings or building sculptures Ware explores universal themes of social isolation emotional torment & depression with his trademark self-effacing voice The end result is wry highly empathetic & identifiable to all walks of life Ware like Charles Schulz Art Spiegelman & R Crumb has elevated cartooning to an iconic art form This volume is a personal massive never-before-seen look at how the artist s life & work combine beginning with his newspaper family & the influence of their work; his art-school days in Austin & Chicago; to his career from the early 1990s to the present day It also delves into how as a storyteller & builder his near-compulsion to build in three
Dimensions feeds into the thinking of his innovative narrative art The book contains a comprehensive collection of his work including many previously unpublished examples & is an intimate window into a comics master sure to appeal to fans of art & storytelling