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When he’s not drawing, Chris Ware likes to read and look at vintage comics. He highly recommends a book that defies even his powers of description — a folio-sized reproduction of some of America’s first newspaper cartoons, made long before super-heroes and adventure stories took over the medium. Back then, he says, the medium could be anything — and was.
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Society is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy of the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915
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Interview: Chris Ware on his graphic novel 'Building Stories'
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