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I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

- Chris Ware
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I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.

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I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.