American - Artist | December 28, 1967 -
My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.
Chris Ware
GlassesLooksHeadLikeHam
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
LifeEmpathyMeGrandmotherTurn
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.
MyselfStoryThinkPicturesWrite
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
AgeBelieveLanguageDevelopmentSee
I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.
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Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
RealBecauseReadCartoonsIntended
The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.
BooksLikeMostAnybodyAffordThem
The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.
MindWindowLookingLookImageOut
There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.
HateWorldYouLazinessEverything
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.
ArtWorldFreePersonalExistLeast
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.
ChangeStyleSchoolTexasDrawing
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.
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