Chris Ware

Pure Thought on Paper

Olivier Schrauwen’s graphic novel Sunday is, like Ulysses, an attempt to capture the thoughts, experiences, memories, musings, and mania of one man over a single day. It is also, like Ulysses, a masterpiece.

Guston’s Graphic Novel

In the summer of 1971, the painter Philip Guston, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, began a series of drawings under the working title of “Poor Richard” that grew out of his disgust and fascination with Richard Nixon.

Saul Steinberg’s Universe

Saul Steinberg’s images grow and even live on the page; somewhere in the viewing of a Steinberg drawing the reader follows not only his line, but also his line of thought.

To Walk in Beauty

George Herriman saw the history of America and its future and wrote it in ink as a dream on paper, and it is a dream that is still coming true.

The Machine is Calling

Soft City by Pushwagner is something of a miracle. The comic-strip dream book is unlike anything ever drawn, the sort of magical object one wakes up from seeing in the imagination only to fade within seconds of consciousness.