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schmevil (schmevil) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-28 11:39:00

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creator: chris ware

Unmasked, by Chris Ware
This was printed in the New Yorker. It's a domestic story, so don't expect explosions or throat punching. Text may be a bit small, but it's also available via the link above, where you can get bigger scans.

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	glprime 2009-10-28 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	"OH HAI, IM CHRIS WARE. IMA JUS GONA TAKE THIS SPOON AND... OOPS THAR GOS U HART. OM NOM NOM." Ware, you understated dramatic bastard. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	punishermax 2009-10-28 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	Chris Ware could write an episode of Ren and Stimpy and make it heartbreakingly depressing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	schmevil 2009-10-28 06:51 pm UTC (link)
	"Poor mom, she was still so naive in so many ways." OH GOD. D: (Reply to this) (Parent)

	stig 2009-10-28 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	Ware's work is the superior of a vast majority of work that goes on in the mainstream market. I feel as if this woman were living near me, perhaps just three doors down. Oh, and I just want to get it out in the open: chief amongst my various reasons for despising the talentless Seth McFucklane is for his stealing off Ware's Jimmy Corrigan. Uninspired hack. (Reply to this) (Thread)

wizardru
2009-10-28 08:02 pm UTC (link)

I haven't read Jimmy Corrigan, but a quick google, wiki and amazon preview doesn't really show me what McFarlane stole.

I mean, I figured I'd see something here or here, but no dice. About the only relation I found was a single thread on a forum claiming the same, but the only evidence they provided was a shot of the Stewie character and Jimmy both having football shaped heads.

I mean, from what I can tell, they're not even remotely similar in tone, character or approach. Jimmy Corrigan has more in common with "Hey, Arnold", from what I can tell. Is there more to it than that?

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psychop_rex
2009-10-29 05:27 am UTC (link)

On the one hand, I can definitely appreciate Chris Ware's talents as an artist and a storyteller - on the other, I can only take him in small doses because he is SOOOOOOOO depressing. I got 'Jimmy Corrigan' as a Christmas present one year, and I couldn't even get halfway through it because it was just so BLEAK. The man just does not know how to write happy and uplifting stuff - if he'd written the screenplay for 'It's a Wonderful Life', the protagonist would have jumped off the bridge and drowned before the angel ever got to him. Furthermore, I don't like his attitude towards non-arty comics - I once read an article he wrote in which he dismissed mainstream comics as the 'stone tools' of the genre. Seriously, that's all he said about them. A ten-page article about comics, and mainstream comics got one sentence devoted to them, in which they are dismissed. Well, up yours, too, Mr. Ware.

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jlroberson
2009-10-29 03:41 pm UTC (link)

Hmm, he seems to be starting to embrace the third dimension. Nice.

Though I gotta say, I'm still recovering from a Ware fatigue going on now about a year that I really can't explain. He's become one of those people whom I appreciate more than like. Perhaps something about his work becoming less experimental and his having found a general(and very complex and sophisticated, don't mistake me on that) style he now works within. I preferred him, I guess, when he kept experimenting.

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	halloweenjack 2009-10-29 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	I love this. I think I'm actually going to buy the New Yorker in print, for once. I get people who find Ware's work too depressing, though; I think that it comes out about as often as I can emotionally take it. (Reply to this)