Chris Ware
Recent articles about Chris Ware
The art of small moments
Issue 96, Spring 2018
To call Chris Ware a genius seems obvious, banal, almost. So much praise has…
To have and to hold
Issue 88, Summer 2014
The challenges of digital publishing have galvanised a new spirit in book design and production.…
A fraternity of trifles
Issue 43, Spring 2002
With Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan upending expectations of the comic book form…
Life’s little detours
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Eric Heiman salutes the ‘Edward Hopper of design and comic art’
Ware: we are not worthy
Issue 55, Spring 2005
Do we deserve someone as good as Chris Ware? Surely we are not worthy. Whether…
The stuff they like
Issue 43, Spring 2002
The Fall 2000 issue of The Ganzfeld was a 152-page pocket book; the latest is…
Density, magic, genius and loss
Issue 40, Summer 2001
Chris Ware’s comic strip was originally published in Chicago’s alternative New…
Smartest letterer on the planet
Issue 45, Autumn 2002
Chicago’s comic book hero has a finely tuned gift for hand-lettering
Ware comes back with a darker narrative
Issue 59, Spring 2006
After a four-year hiatus spent repackaging earlier work for a mainstream…
Recent blog posts by Chris Ware
Classic Collections – Type and lettering
22 December 2015
For a limited time, you can buy a bundle of Eye typography issues – at a bargain price
This ‘Type and lettering’ bundle contains issues 37, 45, 50 and 72: all have a special interest in designers and examples of typographic design and lettering forms. Although these issues do not focus solely on type, we have chosen them for what they reveal about the relationships between design, illustration and typography.
The cover that never was
6 May 2010
Is Chris Ware’s rejected cover for Fortune 500 right on the money?
The world of graphic design is full of images that never were, writes John L. Walters, buried in blogs, and the footnotes to design or cultural history.