Comments on: Ware’s Candide

By: The Constant Conversation | On Penguin 75

The Constant Conversation | On Penguin 75 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:21:53 +0000

[...] is a bit different. It’s cute, I guess, and it was trendy, I suppose, when they started it. The Chris Ware cover for Candide makes a nice poster, a cute poster, but as a cover it grates on me and betrays the tone necessary [...]

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AUSTINKLEON.COM » Blog Archive » U GOT THE LOOK* — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:42:37 +0000

[...] And added thanks to Corey: CANDIDE, by Voltaire (preferably Chris Ware’s design) [...]

By: Deep Red

Deep Red — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:04:51 +0000

I don’t think Chris Ware is going for the bright vibrant look.
If you read the comics the drawings go well with them.

They’re pretty sick comics, I definitely feel the repression/depression, the art is just reflecting it.

He did Quimby Mouse ya?

You gotta give Ware his props, I mean when were these comics made?
There probably wasn’t alot/anything like it at the time.

I’m into it.

By: Deep Red

Deep Red — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:04:00 +0000

I don’t think Chris Ware is going for the bright vibrant look.
If you read the comics the drawings go well with them.

They’re pretty sick comics, I definitely feel the repression/depression, the art is just reflecting it.

He did Quimby Mouse ya?

You gotta give Ware his props, I mean when were these comics made?
There probably wasn’t alot/anything like it at the time.

I’m into it.

By: jose

jose — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:51:54 +0000

chris ware is a really great cartoonist. his work is original and the visuals in his books (esp. in jimmy corrigan) are fantastic.
jimmy corrigan is realistic in its awkwardness and i must say that i agree with peach, the emotion comes from the silence.

By: jose

jose — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:51:00 +0000

By: jacobrmiller

jacobrmiller — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:32:44 +0000

Bonnie and Bill touched on a great point.
As far as I’m concerned, Ware has brought a new sense of a ‘love of the craft’ to the medium. B&B mentioned great design. His use of typography and his sensibilities regarding the crafting of the page. Is there another doing such minutiae detail to a dustjacket as seen with jimmy corrigan?
The rest of you (including Bill) lost me in their castration of Ware not being able to write. They’re comics. Is it truly writing, per se?

By: jacobrmiller

jacobrmiller — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:32:00 +0000

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:36:57 +0000

Man, I’m sorry but ware can NOT write.
Jimmy Corrigan was almost unbearable to read. Great illustrations and great design, but poorly written.

The entire book can be summed up as a bunch of people looking awkardly at each other then coughing then going “oh” “um” “okay”

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:36:00 +0000

Man, I’m sorry but ware can NOT write.
Jimmy Corrigan was almost unbearable to read. Great illustrations and great design, but poorly written.

The entire book can be summed up as a bunch of people looking awkardly at each other then coughing then going “oh” “um” “okay”