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drawing is a way of thinking

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An edition of The comics of Chris Ware (2010)

The comics of Chris Ware

drawing is a way of thinking

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English
Pages
238

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Cover of: The comics of Chris Ware
The comics of Chris Ware: drawing is a way of thinking
2010, University Press of Mississippi
in English
Cover of: The comics of Chris Ware
The comics of Chris Ware: drawing is a way of thinking
2010, University Press of Mississippi, Brand: University Press of Mississippi
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

In the chapter titled "In the Comics Workshop: Chris Ware and the Oubapo," written by Martha Kuhlman, page 81 is omitted. The page can be viewed here: http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/eng_book/1

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Jackson

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
741.5/973
Library of Congress
PN6727.W285 Z63 2010, PN6727.W285Z63 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 238 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
238

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24419113M
ISBN 10
1604734426, 1604734434
ISBN 13
9781604734423, 9781604734430
LCCN
2009033755
OCLC/WorldCat
434438037

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15452043W

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