Chris Ware’sRusty Brown depicts life the way it is: jam packed with details, the closer you look the ever more there is. The titular and central character of Rusty Brown is just a centerpiece in a ...

Lynda Barry and Chris Ware discuss the culture of comics, and their new books, Making Comics and Rusty Brown. Chris Ware mentions being inspired by Lynda Barry’s explosive improvisation. Lynda Barry ...

From “New Yorker” magazine covers to serialized comic strips to multi-item story boxes, graphic novelist Chris Ware can draw it all. His new work, “Rusty Brown,” is nearly 400 hundred pages, with ...

Reading a Chris Ware graphic novel means committing to a cycle of excitement and fatigue. I’m weary before even taking off Rusty Brown’s plastic shrink wrap, knowing that this brick of a book will be ...

Roughly two decades ago, about a week after Chris Ware completed “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth,” the sprawling graphic novel that cemented the Oak Park artist’s reputation as the most ...

In his author bio, Chris Ware describes Rusty Brown, the product of 18 years of labor, as a “sad, inexplicable work,” and that’s a fairly accurate description of a book that must also, in fairness, be ...