Chris Ware - Comics Reinvented

Chris Ware is arguably the most important comic book artist of recent times. recent years, and not only in the United States, his country of birth and residence. His main albums, Jimmy Corrigan, Building Stories and Rusty Brown are translated, celebrated and commented on throughout the world. Multiple rewarded, he received in June 2021 the Grand Prix d'Angoulême for his entire career his work. Abundantly illustrated with rare or unpublished images, this first monograph in French offers several crossings of a work already imposing although still in full development. There is a presentation chronological as well as two long interviews given to Benoît Peeters (in 2003 and in 2021). Great connoisseur of the history and aesthetics of the band drawn, Chris Ware holds on to his own work and the art of the strip drawn a speech of extreme richness. This is why the work includes also four articles by him. The last part of the book offers several studies by Jacques Samson, analyzing the originality and modernity of the work of Chris Ware. Jacques Samson lives in Montreal. After a career in teaching (band drawing, cinema, literature), he maintains a passion more active than ever for comics. At Impressions Nouvelles, he published the monograph Emmanuel Guibert in good company. Writer and screenwriter, Benoît Peeters is the author of Hergé, son of Tintin and to Read the Comic Strip (Flammarion). With François Schuiten, he designed and developed the series Les Cités obscures, which won numerous awards and translated worldwide.