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Chris Ware
PainterMixed MediaKnown for:
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000); Building Stories (2012)
Education:
University of Texas at Austin (BFA, 1991); School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA, printmaking)
Chris Ware began publishing in alternative comics in the late 1980s before producing Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), a graphic novel of fractured temporal narrative and typographic invention that won the Guardian First Book Award - the first comic to receive a major British literary prize. His subsequent work - Building Stories (2012), packaged as a box of fourteen printed items in different formats - pushed the physical possibilities of the printed book. He is widely considered the most formally ambitious cartoonist working in English.
Chris Ware's Gear List(1)
Loew-Cornell
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Connection note
Inks with a #2 synthetic sable watercolor brush; uses a new one for every page. Sketches in non-photo blue pencil on bristol board, colors digitally in Photoshop
Product description
Round brush with white nylon bristles, a seamless nickel-plated ferrule, and a short lacquered wooden handle. Holds paint well and is stiff enough to drive color into fabric or textured surfaces. Originally popular with fabric painters and ceramicists.
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