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The comics of Chris Ware : drawing is a way of thinking

Inventing cartooning ancestors : Ware and the comics canon / Jeet Heer -- Masked fathers : Jimmy Corrigan and the superheroic legacy / Jacob Brogan -- The limits of realism : alternative comics and middlebrow aesthetics in the anthologies of Chris Ware / Marc Singer -- Chris Ware's failures / D...

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Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , c2010
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Author Notes:edited by David M. Ball and Martha B. Kuhlman
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Summary:Inventing cartooning ancestors : Ware and the comics canon / Jeet Heer -- Masked fathers : Jimmy Corrigan and the superheroic legacy / Jacob Brogan -- The limits of realism : alternative comics and middlebrow aesthetics in the anthologies of Chris Ware / Marc Singer -- Chris Ware's failures / David M. Ball -- Chris Ware and the burden of art history / Katherine Roeder -- In the comics workshop : Chris Ware and the oubapo / Martha B. Kuhlman -- Comics and the grammar of diagrams / Isaac Cates -- On modernism's ruins : the architecture of "Building stories" and lost buildings / Daniel Worden -- Chris Ware's "Building stories," gentrification, and the lives of/in houses / Matt Godbey -- Confronting the intersections of race, immigration, and representation in Chris Ware's comics / Joanna Davis-McElligatt -- Public and private histories in Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan / Shawn Gilmore -- Autobiography with two heads : Quimby the Mouse / Benjamin Widiss -- Chris Ware and the pursuit of slowness / Georgiana Banita -- Imagining an idiosyncratic belonging : representing disability in Chris Ware's "Building stories" / Margaret Fink Berman -- Past imperfect : "Building stories" and the art of memory / Peter R. Sattler
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XXIII, 238 S. zahlr. Ill.
ISBN:9781604734423
9781604734430