Comments on: Episode 185: Chris Ware

By: Andries

Andries — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:34:25 +0000

Chris Ware is the cartoon art genius of our time.

By: Gordon S. Fisherman

Gordon S. Fisherman — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:28:55 +0000

Lugh!

By: Lugh

Lugh — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:08:56 +0000

I think something that Ware was getting at but he couldn’t quite verbalize is that people live in different worlds of entertainment and literature and such and that it’s okay for those worlds to co-exist. Sometimes we can visit those strange other places, too.

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By: Joe Tallarico

Joe Tallarico — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:03:03 +0000

Awesome Interview. It’s always great to hear the man talk.

I particularly enjoyed the discussion on superhero comics and the differences between Ware’s own work.

Also enjoyed yours and Chris’ reminiscence of Bob Loescher and his altruistic ability to respond to work and teach. Even in teaching comics, as in a painting or whatever fine art class, the teacher is going to impose their view of what comics are which is either going to be superhero, or personal narrative, or like a Scott McCloudy mish-mosh of both. What comics are capable of, I think it’s very similar to painting, i.e. you have an idea or concept and you have the execution of that idea through process.

Heavy political and social undertones, disguised melodramatic men, and irrational abstract-views of personal reality. There’s tons more to it than that, of course but its two sides of the same coin.

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Day and Night 3/24/09 « To Fear It Is To Know It — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:15:46 +0000

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By: amytalluto

amytalluto — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:35:13 +0000

WOW! That was so great! Chris Ware is so self-effacing but I found his philosophies on creating comics and being an artist so honest and complex and interesting. It was also nice to hear more about Linda Barry who gets left out of things way too much.`Thx for the interview BAS!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:43:22 +0000

No, that’s true, it wouldn’t. Silly perhaps.

By: koi

koi — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:36:24 +0000

No it wouldn’t

By: tom

tom — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:28:17 +0000

i was thinking u could have someone in the background reading from one of chris ware’s stories, u know a couple of folks acting out the various parts, that would make for an interesting subtext….

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:07:22 +0000

I just finished listening. Great interview. Chris is a creative wonder as well as a technical great. R & D did a fine job. Compliments all around.

Chris, although you criticize your own speaking, here and elsewhere I have heard you, I always find you to be a good speaker — direct, clear, about the work.

Since you all mention the Masters of Comics exhibition, let me remind listeners of the interview on Bad at Sports with Jennings and Duffy the curators of Out of Sequence which is touring museums and was created as an extension and critique of sorts to Masters. Much work in it is specifically for exhibition, Chris’s work, to my eye, always looks great on display, let me add. Link here:
http://badatsports.com/2008/episode-172-john-jennings-and-damian-duffy/

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:19:21 +0000

Yeah such stuff is distracting. It makes everyone sound like they are in a shopping mall or something, no matter what the music is.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:20:34 +0000

I used to put a music bed under the whole show, but it proved too distracting and we killed the practice.

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:26:01 +0000

Or really cool would be diffrently “evocative” backgrounds for each speaker, as if you were in different dimensions or locations or something — like a babbling brook and birds behind you Richard, super Stevie Wonder/Curtis Mayfield-like party sounds behind Duncan and bad elevator music and dings and so behind the guest.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:40:16 +0000

Tom,

I’ll be sure to mix in the sound of a babbling brook and repost.

My kid has one of those white noise machines in his room, maybe I’ll record that.

The choppiness is bad only in the beginning. Later on when he is giving longer answers it isn’t such a big deal.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:47:23 +0000

it might be fun to mix in some “other” white noise, that way it would stil lsound “choppy” but u could bring in some other references

By: tom

tom — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:46:09 +0000

hmmmm. ok. i kinda liked the tower of silence idea. but oh well.

By: Steve Hamann

Steve Hamann — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:37:50 +0000

I love Chris Ware. I met him at a signing at Revolution Comics in Evanston. He could not have been nicer.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:31:21 +0000

We were using SM-58s He was using a lapel Mic and we were in a noisy public place. I made the difficult choice to edit out the background noise when he wasn’t speaking, even though it would sound a bit choppy in the interest of sound quality. it is a bit odd sounding but it is worth overlooking for an excellent discussion with a super-interesting artist.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:25:18 +0000

did u re record the questions post partum? or does chris ware actually really live in a separate universe where the is white noise and u guys are in the tower of silence?