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Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested

An interview with one of America’s most important cartoonists

Spanning 2002 to 2023, the book is filled with illustrations of his daughter as she grows from infancy to college age, sketches of subway riders, renderings of children’s toys and stately foyers, pandemic musings, concepts for New Yorker covers, watercolor experiments, intricate schematics, and several notes about his own hopelessness. I’ve struggled for years with despair and doubt and naively thought that if I worked just a little harder or a little longer, I’d suddenly one day bloom into a gloriously radiant self-confident artist. I was recently anesthetized for a medical procedure with a low dose of fentanyl and then had the best night’s sleep I’d had in decades, waking up not in a panic but grateful for my pillow and in a sort of pink sparkly haze; it felt like Christmas Eve c. 1976.

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