Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware is an American cartoonist known for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), Building Stories (2012) and Rusty Brown (2019). His works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression. He tends to use a vivid color palette and realistic, meticulous detail. His lettering and images are often elaborate and sometimes evoke the ragtime era or another early 20th-century American design style.
Books9
with Roxane Gay, Ben Passmore, Jesse Ball and Brian Evenson
with Ben Katchor and Adrian Tomine
with Seth Tobocman, David Lasky, Alison Bechdel, Jessica Abel, Ivan Brunetti, Robert Crumb, Justin Hall, Lilli Carre and Rick Geary
with Manu Larcenet and Edmond Baudoin
with Robert Boyd
Graphic novels9
The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
with Seth, Jonathan Lethem, Ivan Brunetti, Jennifer Finney Boylan, David Kamp, David L. Ulin and Chuck Klosterman
with Chip Kidd
with Roddy Doyle
