Chris Ware « The Hooded Utilitarian

October 24, 2012
By Kailyn Kent
Blog, Featured
34 comments

What’s In the Wonder Box

Uninspired gimmickry in Chris Ware’s Building Stories

Flowers for the Smartest Kid on Earth

Twee killed Chris Ware.

February 1, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
7 comments

Oedipus Supes

Chris Ware and Freud and Superman in Acme Library #10

January 25, 2011
By Matthias Wivel
Blog, Columns
22 comments

DWYCK: Jimmy Corrigan’s Spectacular Reality

It has now been over a decade since Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan – The Smartest Kid on Earth was published in collected form, and almost two since he first drew the character in a number of short strips in the Chicago weekly New City. Through the nineties, as it was being republished for the first [...]

September 30, 2010
By aaroncostain
Article, Draw Buildings, Build Drawings, Series
14 comments

Reading Drawings: Architecture and Comics

I will look at how we read both architectural drawings and comics, based on my own understanding of how each works.

DWYCK: Hergé and the Order of Things

We’ve had a fair amount of discussion about how to approach comics critically here at HU lately, and I figured I’d expand a little upon some of the points I’ve made previously regarding cartooning as a visual phenomenon. From a modernist critical perspective, it seems clear that comics’ artistic achievement through their modern history — [...]

Dyspeptic Ouroboros: Matthias Wivel on Ware and Rembrandt

Matthias Wivel wrote an extended response to Caro’s post on Chris Ware and criticism. I hated to see it buried at the end of that long comment thread, so I thought I’d give it it’s own post. Hopefully Matthias won’t take it amiss. So here it is: Wow, great discussion! I’m not sure where to [...]