Chris Ware Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

• The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Innate

• A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

  Chris Ware

  Real, Book, Lines

• Comics are not illustration, any more than fiction is copywriting. Illustration is essentially the application of artistic technique or style to suit a commercial or ancillary purpose; not that cartooning can't be this (see any restaurant giveaway comic book or superhero media property as an example), but comics written and produced by a cartoonist sitting alone by him- or herself are not illustrations. They don't illustrate anything at all, they literally tell a story.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Superhero, Style

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

• I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning in the nuts-and-bolts world of acquiring the means of survival, it's probably mostly on the pay scale. If graphic novels are selling really well and are "growing the book market" or whatever it is a businessman would say about them, I don't see it in the remuneration offered by some of the publishers.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Mean, Survival

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

• Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get into it if one expects to do anything more than produce a book or a story that is exactly as one wants it to be.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Passion, Commitment

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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