The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001
Guardian First Book Prize for the genre-defining
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware has received numerous accolades from both the literary and comics establishment. This collection addresses the range of Ware's work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s in
The ACME Novelty Library and his acclaimed
Jimmy Corrigan, to his most recent works-in-progress, ""Building Stories"" and ""Rusty Brown.""
About the AuthorDavid M. Ball is chair of the English Department at Dickinson College. His essays have appeared in
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance and
Critical Matrix.|Martha B. Kuhlman is associate professor of comparative literature at Bryant University. She has published in the
Journal of Popular Culture, European Journal of Comic Art, and the
International Journal of Comic Art.
Book InformationISBN 9781604734430
Author David M. BallFormat Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of Mississippi
Weight(grams) 691g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 179mm * 15mm