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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.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Another Any Be Nice Cartoonist Each Independent Least Like Marginal Medical Nice Other Practically Respect See Some Stuff Think Way Whose Why

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I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be 'seen through,' or, even worse, instantly hated.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Because Being Even Even Worse Expect Front Guess Hated Instantly Just Know Like People Physically Seen Through Very Well Worse

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I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Either Feels Honesty Most Music Real Story Telling Think Via Way Whether Which I Think

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Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Books Central Collected Comic Comic Books Concern Included Interested Kid Magazines Majority Material Mostly Only Reading Television

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No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Art Bad Cartoon Might Painting Real Simply Themselves Think Understand

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Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Caught Clear Get Getting Line Make My Own Own Possible Sometimes Too Trying Up Worried

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The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Alien Creation Discussion Fruits Hears Human Labor Often Race Some Thing Understand Why

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Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Because Cartoons Drawings Intended Read Real

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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.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Cartoonist Illustrate Illustrator Myself Pictures Story Think Write I Think I Write

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A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

~Chris Ware

Topics: Actually Book Impose Life Real Real Life Seems Sometimes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: December 28th, 1967

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