Description: Displaying both Ware's erudition and his quirky self-deprecation, these collected interviews span his career from 1993 to 2015, creating a time-lapse portrait of the artist as he matures.
Brief description: Jean Braithwaite, Edinburg, Texas, is associate professor of English at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, where she teaches comics among other courses. Braithwaite is comics editor at riverSedge: A Journal of Art and Literature. Her previous book was a literary memoir, FAT: The Story of My Life with My Body, and she has published in periodicals including the Sun, the New York Times, North American Review, and the Henry James Review.
Review Quotes: From the beginning, Chris Ware: Conversations distinguishes itself by filling a gap in comics scholarship by focusing on oeuvre rather than on individual texts. Braithwaites's careful selection not only ensures that hard-to-find early interviews are not lost in time, but also showcases a wide range of interviews--academic and public, live and virtual--that Ware has given since the publication of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid of Earth. With interest in Ware's work on the rise, this book could not have come at a better time.--Lindsay Harper Cannon "Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature"