10 am Friday - Chris Ware 2
We will discuss more aspects of CW's work and look in more depth at the kinds of methods he uses.
1) slow time: The depiction of time is often discussed in CW's work and has been widely discussed.
EG in
BALL, D. M., & KUHLMAN, M. B. (2010). The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking. Jackson, University Press of Mississippi. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10396000., Chapter 13, Chris Ware and the Pursuit of Slowness by Georgiana Banita
2) Clear line: This style of comics was developed by Herge in his Tintin books, and is discussed here:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/tintinandi/interview-on-cartooning/7/
"Incidentally, I stole this idea of using very carefully composed naturalistic color under a platonic black line more or less directly from Hergé, as there’s a certain lushness and jewel-like quality to his pages that also seems to hint at the way we gift-wrap our experiences as memories."
3) Use of type: CW has said "
I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I “draw,” which keeps me at a sensible distance from the story as well as being a visual analog to the way we remember and conceptualize the world" (from PBS interview above)
4) Memory: CW comments A LOT about memory, especially here
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6329/the-art-of-comics-no-2-chris-ware
"Beyond that, by modulating repeated bits of color and by playing warm and cool moments and objects against each other, I try to link various parts of a story together, sort of like the way our memories rewrite our experiences to suit the person we’d like to imagine we are, cleaning things up to suit our tastes.."
"The simple act of remembering means creating an edited, “colored” memory of something that was initially probably flabbergasting, messy, and confusing."
