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...Having Fantagraphics shuttered or even compromised would be a disastrous blow to the medium. They have consistently published America's most important comix artists including Dan Clowes ("Eightball"), Chris Ware ("Jimmy Corrigan") and Joe Sacco ("Safe Area Gorazde.") I encourage TIME.comix readers to help "the cause" by buying books at the Fantagraphics website: www.fantagraphics.com...
...JIMMY CORRIGAN: SMARTEST KID ON EARTH" BY CHRIS WARE AND "SAFE AREA GORAZDE" BY JOE SACCO ACHIEVE NEW HEIGHTS IN THE ART FORM, GAINING WIDESPREAD RECOGNITION. "GHOST WORLD" AND "FROM HELL" MOVIES BASED ON NONSUPERHERO COMICS, APPEAR...
...unnecessary hardcover "collectible" jugular. Herriman's best "Krazy Kat" work appeared in his full-page Sunday strips since this allowed him the most amount of freedom of form. So here they are, printed in chronological order with their date of publication. The collection's designer, Chris Ware (of "Jimmy Corrigan" fame), wisely makes his hand all but invisible. The strips are just black and white because William Randolph Hearst, syndicator and patron saint of the strip, ran it in the arts section of his papers rather than the color "funnies." Disappointingly Hearst also forced the strip into a strict layout...
...from their increasing use of new technology in their works, how comix may or may not fit into a museum, and whose works they currently admire. The panel included Art Spiegelman ("Maus," winner of the Pulitzer Prize,) Kim Deitch ("The Mishkin File,") Charles Burns ("Black Hole,") Chris Ware ("Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth,") Richard McGuire ("Here,") and Kaz ("Underworld") and was moderated by Chip Kidd, editor of Pantheon's graphic novel division...
...first thing TIME.comix noticed: Some of these guys looked like their drawings. Burns sports a nearly bald pate and black-rimmed eyeglasses. Chris Ware, with a large Corrigan-esqe head, tries to bashfully shrink into his chair. Kidd, whose sweeping part of dark hair and wire-rim glasses give him the look of a teenage Devo fan, began by asking Art Spiegelman what it means to be a successful cartoonist. "It's a very mixed blessing," Spiegelman said. "I've felt this incredible weight ever since 'Maus' became a crossover hit because it puts all these eyeballs looking over...