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.