Chris Ware

Known for: Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000); Building Stories (2012)

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.