Word: ware
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...everything 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...
...commercial prospects were very good, "people will keep on buying as long as you put stuff out there." Spiegelman likewise felt it was "relatively promising in its own weird way. As publishing itself becomes this totally marginalized activity, there's room for us marginal types in it." Chris Ware, ever the pessimist, pointed out that "the problem is that [comix] always end up in this section called 'graphic novels' which some bookstores don't even have so they end up in 'Science Fiction,' or even worse, with 'Role Playing Games.' I can't go into bookstores any more because...
...Asked how he felt about being included in this year's Biennial exhibition at New York's Whitney museum, Ware said he felt flattered but dismissed it as "luck of the draw." "It's also fairly nonsensical because the clip that I'm including you have to sit down and read. You can't spend a lot of time looking at the artwork on the wall. It's the difference between art for reproduction and art for display." Richard McGuire then spoke of his own recent work, installations of large comix panels that hang from the ceiling, as an example...
...that hasn't reached most Chinese, who feel ambivalent about America after decades of anti-U.S. propaganda. The mixed emotions are apparent countrywide, even in a market in the city of Kunming, near Burma, where a vendor who usually sells parakeets and potted flowers now offers more contemporary ware?a ceramic model of the Twin Towers spouting flames and another of Osama bin Laden gripping a Kalashnikov. But he sells another sentiment as well. "Are you American?" he asks. "I've got your flag, too." Sure enough, he points to Old Glory hanging next to a mask...