The Ephemerist

We mentioned the animation that Chris Ware did for This American Life before. Here’s a new one, from season two, which is quite nice as well.  And recognisable.

(via Coudal Partners)

Art Spiegelman has provided the cover for the Spring 2008 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review, which, as you see, also features new work by Chris Ware.

Gabriel Gobrera Sastre is a Spanish illustrator and cartoonist who has an ongoing strip in the über-hip Ling Magazine (it’s so hip it ain’t got no website of its own). As sources of inspiration, he cites Charles Schulz, John Satanley (Little Lulu), Elsie Segar, Gary Taxali (obviously), but above all Seth and Chris Ware.

The strip above, which is one of the latest for Ling, explicitly is meant as a homage to Ware and Seth, who renewed and strengthened his interest in present comics. I quite like it, even though I haven’t got the faintest clue what’s going on - the page layout is very tight and inventive, and the dark and threatening atmosphere is very clear.

I’m always a sucker for work that can be described using the phrases “New Yorker” and “Chris Ware”. So there, a sketch. It was sent to me by email, so I don’t know the source. If you can help me, please reply.

This week’s episodes of Chris Onstad’s fabulous webcomic Achewood are a take on / parody of / homage to Chris Ware (or, Franklin Christenson Ware, as Onstad puts it in his first strip, appropriately called “Another Man’s Way”).

The Virginia Quarterly Review announces that, starting from their Winter 2008 issue, Chris Ware will elaborate on this Jordan W. Lint story, chronicling the life of an American teenager up until age 21 (which sounds like typical Ware subject matter to me). This story is a continuation of Ware’s contribution to Zadie Smith’s The Book Of Other People, blogged about earlier.

25 bucks isn’t a lot for a yearly subscription, I think, but I’d rather wait for this story to be published in one of Ware’s lavish hardcovers.

Charlie Gower pointed me towards this book. It’s a collection of short stories which not only boasts a cover by Charles Burns, but also contains stories by Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes ! How cool is that ?

Awards Daily has the new poster for the Philip Seymour Hoffman film The Savages, which was done by Chris Ware (as confirmed, it would seem about a month ago) by the Acme Novelty Archive. And people rave about it.

From Occasional Superheroine, another New Yorker cover by Chris Ware. I love this guy.

A quick glance at my referrer sites lead me Gaper’s block which gave a nicely double edged comment on my recent Ief Claessen post and lead me to the Bleat, where I found alittlebettergasstation.com. This is a campaign site for British Petroleum. It’s unsure whether their gas stations are “a little better” or whether they are better little gas stations. In any case, I think this is a clear example of a misplaced use of cartoony images.

And the windscreen wiper “beep” is indeed a Chris Ware sweep. Or wipe, if you wish.