I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.
Chris WareThe thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.
Chris WareComics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise.
Chris WareI don't think that people are necessarily going to films simply because they were adapted from comics, though I could be wrong. Comics aren't really misunderstood either, they've just been mostly silly for the past century, and those genre-centered stories have found their way into the movie theaters over the past couple of decades because a generation who grew up reading them has, well, grown up.
Chris Ware