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

please put RAW scans on line. it will only make them more valuable. the originals i mean. for that kind of people. that you're obviously not part of. that is.

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.

Screwed up that reply didn't I...

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.

A wanna be Crumb with the music.He doesn't have the personality, though.What a bore.

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

Bad posture! He'll be a getting chiropractor's help. That's why you use a tilt-up table.

I find his work technically impressive, but bloodless, and dry.

Where is there a long history in comics--I believe he's everything of Comix.

Sexually explicit? Christ how sheltered are you? R. Crumb's work makes Ware's stuff look like kids books on that front, and then there's the porno comix found in any store...

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.)

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.