Comix - Chris Ware on French Television, 2005 (Part 2 of 3)

This is part two, part one is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gr-EZBPbHI

...and part three is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek0TUdP3gps

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• chris
• ware
• acme

[theogore]

Thanks for uploading this. I would never have seen this otherwise.

[ultimessence]

Chris Ware is such a seminal and visionary artist. A genuine man of ideas. So few artists break as much new ground as he does.

One gets the impression that Chris won't fully hit his stride until he's 79 years old.

Bravo! We need more brilliant Obsessive/Compulsives like him.

[oliverecords]

03:20 already a classic moment

[elihouston]

Chris Ware is hilarious.

[flammaster]

He is a friend of my brother who is an illustrator also. He said Chris always says how he wishes he could draw better. I love the guys work!

[comiczoneaz]

this is really interesting. We think Jimmy Corrigan is one of the greatest comics ever.

[kingdorkiv]

wrong. chris is a legitimate ragtime historian, while crumb just likes anything old.

[FoKisx]

i love chris complexity. i actually love the way his complex ideas or senarios are combined with his texture and style of drawing. His work is so hard to read but its fantastic. anyway its worth it.

[jonanjello]

Screwed up that reply didn't I...

[jonanjello]

Great stuff.

No other comic currently published are as significant. Nowadays I'll take only buy ANL, Blade of the Immortal and DC's Showcase Presents collections.

[weikko79]

Ware's fake ads are indeed bleakly nihilistic in the way you describe, but I wouldn't say this is his overall view on life. That's not the feeling I get from his stories, anyway, e.g. Jimmy Corrigan.

[enossified]

Well, Crumb's stuff strikes me as gleefully perverse whereas Ware's is often just bleakly nihilistic.

Have you seen Ware's (fake) classified ad for the 'Happy Family Appliques' that can be affixed to windows to provide the false appearance of a laughing, loving family? Inside, though, we see a man demanding oral sex with a pistol pointed at the victim's head. I'd say that's explicit. And very, very dark.(And extremely funny partly because it's so far past our line of taboo.)