Tag Archive | "Chris Ware"

Francoise Mouly’s Blown Covers … and new Chris Ware

Saturday, March 3, 2012

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Well, here’s one to bookmark, stick in a feed reader, whatever we’re all doing now…. New Yorker cover editor Françoise Mouly has launched a new blog in promotion of her Blown Covers book (Pantheon April 2012) described as: “Behind the scenes at The New Yorker with art editor Françoise Mouly” and “New Yorker covers you [...]

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Thursday, February 10, 2011

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The always excellent Chris Ware turns his skills to designing a film poster for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the Palme D’or winning Thai supernatural movie from Apichatpong Weerasethakul. “”I wanted to get at both the transcendent solemnity of the film while keeping some sense of its loose, very unpretentious accessibility. This [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, January 20, 2011

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As a crisp, frosty January Thursday shines across the land here’s Alex Fitch to shed a little glow of winter sunlight with some of his up and coming radio and podcast shows. And oh my, just look who he has as guest tonight! Really, have a look, swoon with excitement, look again to check you [...]

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“Money, it’s a gas…”

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

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Chris Ware provides more cover art for the New Yorker, this time for their money issue, Robot 6 tells us,  with a jolly, happy family obviously deliriously happy at the announcement over cuts to child benefit payments this week: (art by and (c) Chris Ware, published the New Yorker)

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Acme Novelty Archive

Saturday, September 25, 2010

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Thanks to the Fanta blog for pointing this one out – The Acme Novelty Archive; a slightly obsessive collection of all things Chris Ware put together by Adam Kemp. It certainly looks absolutely exhaustive, and another one of those things that makes me wonder how people find the time. I could have picked so many [...]

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Covered – Jon Adams takes on Chris Ware

Saturday, June 19, 2010

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Over on the much loved Covered blog (simple idea, like all the best are; artists reinterpret comic covers), Jon Adams (of the Truth Serum webcomic) does the business with a very early comic by Chris Ware; Floyd Farland, published by Eclipse in 1987: (On the left, Chris Ware’s 1987 original. On the right, Jon Adams [...]

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Pictures and Words: Ware, Brunetti, Nilsen and Brown talk comics

Friday, June 18, 2010

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Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Anders Nilsen and Chris Ware discussed comic craft and the place of the graphic novel in literature at a recent event, Partnership of the Picture and the Word, sponsored by Northwestern’s Center for the Writing Arts and the Mary & Leigh Block; Northwestern News has a video up – alas it [...]

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Ware & Clowes and more…

Saturday, June 5, 2010

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From the Gosh blog; the recent Chris Ware & Dan Clowes signing had some very excited comic people right at the front of the queue…. That’s a lovely picture of Rian Hughes, Duncan Fegredo and Sean Phillips at the front of the queue. And from what I hear, the signing had a lot of very [...]

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Chris Ware does Fortune 500

Monday, April 26, 2010

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I missed seeing this the other week but fortunately Wim spotted it – the great Chris Ware doing a cover for Fortune 500, complete with homes being lost under the waves, a US Treasury sliding off the end of the country as money is plundered from it, a Stocks’n'Bonds Casino and a nice sign welcoming [...]

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Dan Clowes and Chris Ware at Gosh!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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London’s Gosh! Comics have what has to be one of the best looking comics signings of the spring in the UK – Dan Clowes and Chris Ware. I don’t mind admitting I am extremely jealous – I heard some of the London based artists at Hi-Ex at the weekend talking about going to this and [...]

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Wolff & Byrd and The Scariest Kid On Earth….

Sunday, January 17, 2010

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Batton Lash, creator of the Wolff and Byrd, Counsellors Of The Macabre, has a new storyline on his Wolff & Byrd webcomic, featuring Chris Corrigan, Scariest Kid On Earth. Sounds familiar? Take a look…… Given the amount of mentions it’s been receiving, Lash’s take on Chris Ware seems to have done the trick publicity wise. [...]

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Chris Ware animating This American Life

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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More Chris Ware goodness (can we have too much of it? No), this time via Boing Boing a link to the Ware talking about animating a story from This American Life. Fab!

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Unmasked

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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More Chris Ware goodness in the New Yorker, this time on the cover (above) and in the form of a 4-page comic (see below, art (c) Chris Ware/New Yorker), Unmasked, inside the November 2nd issue; peek at it on the New Yorker site (via Graham Linehan’s Twitter): (a scene from Unmasked by Chris Ware, coming [...]

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Chicago, Chicago, it’s Chris Ware’s kinda town…

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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The brilliant Chris Ware has created the cover for volume 108 of respected literary journal Granta, which has a theme based around the Windy City, Chicago. Ware, as ever, has produced a lovely, deceptively simple, clean piece of illustration; I think it has a nice, fairly timeless quality to it – I could easily imagine [...]

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