The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking
brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001
Guardian
First Book Prize for the genre-defining
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
, Ware has received numerous accolades from both the literary and comics establishment. This collection addresses the range of Ware's work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s in
The ACME Novelty Library
and his acclaimed
Jimmy Corrigan
, to his most recent works-in-progress, "Building Stories" and "Rusty Brown."