{"id":3450,"date":"2010-06-16T22:08:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T02:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2010-06-16T22:08:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T02:08:58","slug":"chris-ware-and-the-comics-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"Chris Ware and the Comics Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3451\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/chriswarecover11.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3451\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3451\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/chriswarecover11.jpg?resize=200%2C286\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Essays on Chris Ware.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I have an\u00a0piece in a new collection of critical essays devoted to Chris Ware (<em>The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a\u00a0Way of Thinking<\/em>, edited by David Ball and Martha Kuhlman).\u00a0Now, thanks to the wonders of Google Books, parts of that collection are now online, including the whole of my essay. You can look at the book <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=QrFmPKlv61sC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=comics+chris+ware+drawing&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=AIEZTKb6B4TonQeA74TECg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=comics%20chris%20ware%20drawing&amp;f=false\">here<\/a>. The\u00a0entire book is very much worth reading with many fine critical essays. You can buy a copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/30974\/biblio\/9781604734430?&amp;PID=719\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My essay begins like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1990,Chris Ware, then a twenty-two-year-old student at the very beginning of his career, made a pilgrimage to Monument Valley, Arizona in order to investigate the life of George Herriman. Author of the classic comic strip <em>Krazy Kat<\/em>, which ran in variety of newspapers from 1913 until the cartoonist&#8217;s death in 1944, Herriman used\u00a0 the other worldly desert landscape of the region as the ever-shifting backdrop to his comics. Along with the adjacent area of Coconino County, Monument Valley inspired the dream-like lunar landscape that made<em> Krazy Kat <\/em>a rare example of cartoon modernism. Eager to learn more about the sources of Herriman\u2019s artistry, Ware felt he had to see landscape of jutting buttes and flat-topped mesas that the earlier cartoonist had so creatively incorporated into his work. This hajj to the Southwest\u00a0was an early manifestation of Ware\u2019s interest in the history of cartooning, a persistent fascination that has been much more than an antiquarian passion and has had a profound influence on Ware&#8217;s body of work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I have an\u00a0piece in a new collection of critical essays devoted to Chris Ware (The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a\u00a0Way of Thinking, edited by David Ball and Martha Kuhlman).\u00a0Now, thanks to the wonders of Google Books, parts of that collection are now online, including the whole of my essay. You can look at the book here. The\u00a0entire book is very much worth reading with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[149,238,639],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-books-about-comics","tag-ware","tag-j-heer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}