Chris Ware lives and works in Oak Park, IL, USA. It’s no real surprise then that Ware, who was born in Omaha in 1967, attended the University of Texas in Austin and (briefly) the Art Institute of Chicago, and lives with his wife and daughter in Oak Park, Illinois, has garnered such diverse awards and honors. Ware has had major exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago (2014-15) Sheldon Museum of Art (2007) MCA Chicago (2006) Jewish Museum, New York (2006) and the Whitney Biennial (2002), among others. Ware’s publications have been cited as “best books” by Publisher’s Weekly (2012), the New York Times (2012), Time Magazine (2012), and The Times, London (2009). Ware’s awards include the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize (2013), United States Artists Fellowship (2006), Guardian First Book Award (2001) American Book Award (2000), and multiple Eisner Awards, Harvey Awards, and awards from the National Cartoonist’s Society. Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest comic/graphic novel ever to be published and is now available for the first time in paperback. The artist’s hand-drawn, complex compositions unfold time through space in surprising arrangements which include pages entirely absent of words, radical shifts in scale, and characters, locations, and events seen from multiple points of view.Ĭhris Ware attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1991-93) and the University of Texas at Austin (BFA, 1991). For five years Chris Ware has been drawing amazingly innovative comic strips about a character called Jimmy Corrigan - a boy with the face of a disappointed old man. Experimenting with the form of the novel itself, Ware’s Building Stories (which took a decade to complete) is a box set of fourteen printed works in a variety of formats-cloth-bound books, newspapers, pamphlets, and flip books-that can be read in any order.

Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware