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Ball, David M. and Martha B. Kuhlman, eds. The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2010. Added by: joachim (12/18/09, 12:53 AM) Last edited by: joachim (5/16/10, 3:48 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 1604734426 BibTeX citation key: Ball2010a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Collection of essays, USA, Ware. Chris Creators: Ball, Kuhlman Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson) |
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| Attachments | URLs http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt12f6ms |
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“The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking” brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001 “Guardian” First Book Prize for the genre-defining “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth,” Ware has received numerous accolades from both the literary and comics establishment. This collection addresses the range of Ware's work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s in “The ACME Novelty Library” and his acclaimed “Jimmy Corrigan,” to his most recent works-in-progress, “Building Stories” and “Rusty Brown.” Table of Contents Introduction Martha B. Kuhlman and David M. Ball: Chris Ware and the ‘Cult of Difficulty’ Contexts and Canons 1. Jeet Heer: Inventing Cartooning Ancestors: Ware and the Comics Canon 2. Jacob Brogan: Masked Fathers: Jimmy Corrigan and the Superheroic Legacy 3. Marc Singer: The Limits of Realism: Alternative Comics and Middlebrow Aesthetics in the Anthologies of Chris Ware 4. David M. Ball: Chris Ware’s Failures Artistic Intersections 5. Katherine Roeder: Chris Ware and the Burden of Art History 6. Martha B. Kuhlman: In the Comics Workshop: Chris Ware and the Oubapo 7. Isaac Cates: Comics and the Grammar of Diagrams The Urban Landscape 8. Daniel Worden: On Modernism’s Ruins: The Architecture of ‘Building Stories’ and Lost Buildings 9. Matt Godbey: Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories,’ Gentrification, and the Lives of/in Houses Reading History 10. Joanna Davis-McElligatt: Confronting the Intersections of Race, Immigration, and Representation in Chris Ware’s Comics 11. Shawn Gilmore: Public and Private Histories in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan 12. Benjamin Widiss: Autobiography with Two Heads: Quimby the Mouse Everyday Temporalities 13. Georgiana Banita: Chris Ware and the Pursuit of Slowness 14. Margaret Fink Berman: Imagining an Idiosyncratic Belonging: Representing Disability in Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories’ 15. Peter R. Sattler: Past Imperfect: ‘Building Stories’ and the Art of Memory Contributor Biographies Chris Ware’s Primary Works: A Guide Works Cited Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |