The comics of Chris Ware
Subtitle: drawing is a way of thinking
By: edited by David M. Ball and Martha B. Kuhlman.
Contributors: Ball, David M., 1976-; Kuhlman, Martha B.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604734423; 9781604734430
Subjects: Ware, Chris, -- 1967- -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inventing cartooning ancestors : Ware and the comics canon / Jeet Heer; title: Masked fathers : Jimmy Corrigan and the superheroic legacy / Jacob Brogan; title: The limits of realism : alternative comics and middlebrow aesthetics in the anthologies of Chris Ware / Marc Singer; title: Chris Ware's failures / David M. Ball; title: Chris Ware and the burden of art history / Katherine Roeder; title: In the comics workshop : Chris Ware and the oubapo / Martha B. Kuhlman; title: Comics and the grammar of diagrams / Isaac Cates; title: On modernism's ruins : the architecture of "Building stories" and lost buildings / Daniel Worden; title: Chris Ware's "Building stories," gentrification, and the lives of/in houses / Matt Godbey; title: Confronting the intersections of race, immigration, and representation in Chris Ware's comics / Joanna Davis-McElligatt; title: Public and private histories in Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan / Shawn Gilmore; title: Autobiography with two heads : Quimby the Mouse / Benjamin Widiss; title: Chris Ware and the pursuit of slowness / Georgiana Banita; title: Imagining an idiosyncratic belonging : representing disability in Chris Ware's "Building stories" / Margaret Fink Berman; title: Past imperfect : "Building stories" and the art of memory / Peter R. Sattler.