For Museum Mondays, we will spend time with cartoonist and illustrator, Chris Ware. Known for his New Yorker magazine covers, Chris Ware is hailed as a master of the comic art form. His complex graphic novels tell stories about people in suburban Midwestern neighborhoods, poignantly reflecting on the role memory plays in constructing identity. Stories featuring many of Ware’s protagonists—Quimby the Mouse, Rusty Brown, and Jimmy Corrigan—often first appear in serialized form, in publications such as The New York Times, the Guardian, or Ware’s own ongoing comic book series Acme Novelty Library, before being organized into their own stand-alone books.
Between the hours of 1-2 pm. on Wednesday, Mr. Coffin will host an open discussion on the work and process of Chris Ware, the importance of Books in a digital age, and the importance of the graphic novel. Link to the discussion will be posted in Google Classroom.