As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
Chris WareAs I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.
Chris WareWell, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.
Chris WareA book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
Chris WareThe thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
Chris WareComics are not illustration, any more than fiction is copywriting. Illustration is essentially the application of artistic technique or style to suit a commercial or ancillary purpose; not that cartooning can't be this (see any restaurant giveaway comic book or superhero media property as an example), but comics written and produced by a cartoonist sitting alone by him- or herself are not illustrations. They don't illustrate anything at all, they literally tell a story.
Chris Ware