Publication of this volume was made possible in part through grants provided by Dickinson College and Bryant University. The editors would also like to thank Meredith Milnes, Ellie Cutler, Shannon Kobran, and Tristan Deveney for their help and hard work and special thanks to Alec Thibodeau, for keeping us covered.

All images and artwork, unless otherwise noted, are copyright © 2009 Chris Ware. The editors of this collection would like to thank Chris Ware for generous permission to reproduce his comics throughout this volume.

Frontis: Portrait of Chris Ware by Ivan Brunetti. © 2010 Ivan Brunetti.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The comics of Chris Ware : drawing is a way of thinking / edited by David M. Ball and Martha B. Kuhlman.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60473-442-3 (alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-60473-443-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Ware, Chris, 1967——Criticism and interpretation. I. Ball, David M., 1976– II. Kuhlman, Martha B.

PN6727.W285Z63 2010

741.5’973—dc22

2009033755

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