Chris Ware: Comics As Art, Ragtime, Composition, Single Images and Proxies

The cartoonist Chris Ware proves himself one of comics' most thoughtful interviews in a five-question piece related to his appearance at the Wisconsin Book Festival that's about as good as a short interview gets. It's even funny:

What preconceptions do you have of Madison and of your Wisconsin Book Festival audience?

Um, well, very little, other than I drove through Madison one day many years ago and it was something like "Everybody Smoke Pot Day" and there were kiosks and booths with all sorts of tie-dyed paraphenalia for sale, so that seemed like quite a friendly and inviting scene. I'm presuming that the civic leaders don't encourage these two Festivals to overlap, however.

Ware will have a conversation at the Festival with Marjane Satrapi a week from Saturday, to be taped for radio. The next issue of ACME Novelty Library looks like a late-November release.
 
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