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Chris Ware

December 2019

  • Rusty Brown by Chris Ware

    Observer book of the week
    The best graphic novels of 2019

    A heartbreaking wartime tale of a Korean ‘comfort woman’ stands out in an excellent year in which stalwarts Seth and Chris Ware continued to expand the horizons of the form

October 2019

  • Rusty Brown by Chris Ware

    Book of the day
    Rusty Brown by Chris Ware review – a treasure trove of invention

    With its awe-inspiring exploration of regret and ageing, anxiety and ennui, Ware’s latest graphic novel poses essential questions about the formation of character

September 2019

  • Rusty Brown by Chris Ware

    ‘I envy writers who suffer from no self‑doubts’: inside the world of graphic novelist Chris Ware

  • Books of the century so far

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best books of the 21st century

December 2017

  • Driving Short Distances by Joff Winterhart inside artworks sent by AONeill@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk

    Best books of 2017
    Rachel Cooke’s best graphic novels of 2017

    There were fine memoirs and a deluxe life of Chris Ware, but the year belonged to Joff Winterhart’s moving portrait of masculinity

November 2017

  • Chris Ware: ‘Some middle-aged colleagues and I believe literary comics fiction is possible without resorting to fantastical heroics.’

    On my radar
    On my radar: Chris Ware’s cultural highlights

  • Grow Up by Chris Ware

    Graphic novel special
    Grow Up by Chris Ware: exclusive cover art for the Observer New Review

October 2017

  • Edinburgh International Book Festival<br>EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 12: Chris Ware, an American comic book artist and cartoonist, appears at a photocall prior to an event at the 30th Edinburgh International Book Festival, on August 12, 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Edinburgh International Book Festival is the worlds largest annual literary event, and takes place in the city which became a UNESCO City of Literature in 2004. (Photo by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images)

    Chris Ware: 'Does the world really need another tome about an artist?'

    The celebrated New Yorker cartoonist on his intricate graphic memoir Monograph, his love for Peanuts and why his grandmother is his favourite storyteller

December 2016

  • a scene from one hundred nights of hero by isabel greenberg

    Observer critics' review of 2016
    Rachel Cooke’s best graphic books of 2016

    From dazzling biographies to fantastic fantasy and wry observation, the year’s graphic books would make great Christmas presents

April 2016

  • Andrew McMillan, winner of the Guardian First Book Awards 2015 reads a poem from his winning book, Physical. It is the first poetry book to win the prize since it began. Books editor and judge Claire Armitstead holds the mic. The event was held at OXO2, on London’s Southbank

    Books blog
    Saying goodbye to the Guardian first book award

    After 17 years of hunting the best new writing, of terrific winners and terrific rows, we’re saying goodbye to the prize. It will leave lots of great memories – please share yours

December 2015

  • A frame from Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying, one of a number of artistically ambitious graphic novels that have come out in recent years.

    So you'd like to get into highbrow comics. Here's where to start

  • From Pablo by Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie.

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best graphic books of 2015

November 2015

  • The Art Of Killing And Dying

    Book of the day
    Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine review – a breakthrough collection of graphic short stories

    With their profoundly empathetic visions of adult life, these six stories mark the New Yorker cartoonist’s finest work yet

September 2015

  • The Last Saturday

    The Last Saturday, by Chris Ware

    A brand new graphic novella by the award-winning cartoonist Chris Ware, tracing the lives of six individuals from Sandy Port, Michigan, published in weekly episodes on this page

July 2015

  • Projector

    Comics capture digital readers – and grab more print fans

    More and more devotees of ‘sequential art’ have begun to consume stories on e-readers and online, but what does that mean for paper?

June 2015

  • Seth cartoon

    Graphic novel of the month
    Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels – review

    The seminal publisher celebrates 25 years in the business with a staggeringly generous collection featuring new or rare work by the likes of Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware and Jo Sacco

May 2015

  • Zadie Smith.

    Books blog
    The Guardian first book award: 16 years of talent-spotting

    As nominations for 2015 open, it’s a good time to remember that the prize isn’t just the sum of its winners but of all the shortlisted stars of the future

February 2015

  • cover of Go Girl! volume 1 by Trina Robbins and Anne Timmons.

    Books blog
    Why our comic-book heroes deserve to be celebrated, not trashed

  • Robert McCrumb's self-portrait in 1994 for the first issue of Self-Loathing Comics.

    Jonathan Jones on art
    When did the comic-book universe become so banal?

December 2014

  • Twists in the fabric of space and time … '1964' from Richard McGuire's Here

    Chris Ware on Here by Richard McGuire – a game-changing graphic novel

    This mind-blowing book, 15 years in the making, extends from the Earth’s earliest days to beyond humanity’s extinction. By Chris Ware
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