Chris Ware and the New Yorker
Chris Ware, of whom I thought I had my fill years ago, pops up to deliver these four covers for the Thanksgiving issue of the New Yorker. It’s one of those “collect all four” deals, but the only one that really turns me on is the one on the bottom right. The NYer has actually posted Ware’s entire broadsheet-y comic on their website, as well as an audio interview with the artist. After being absolutely floored by Jimmy Corrigan, I was never too taken with anything Ware did subsequently, and after a number of years, I thought he had become imprisoned by his signature style. But the cold, forced-family rituals of Thanksgiving and the literary elegance of the New Yorker seem like a perfect fit for Ware’s style, and I’m eager to receive my hard copy in the mail. Here’s hoping for number four.
Chris Bakos wrote:
They very much have that Midnight Train style in that they are all about the same block and perhaps happening at approxiamtely the same time. Each shares elements of the other. I like that. I still love his work in the old RAW magazine.
Posted on 21-Nov-06 at 9:49 pm | Permalink
Rainey Knudson wrote:
I got #3 in the mail. It was pretty good, though the minimum-effort-required cleanness of #2 appealed to me. Interestingly, in the magazine itself, they showed #4 in its entirety (no masthead). I thought, “how will people know its the New Yorker?”
It’s pretty rare these days for a NYer not to superimpose its masthead over the cover image.
Posted on 10-Dec-06 at 10:48 am | Permalink