3 December 2020 Chris Ware Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they’re similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it’s performed.
3 December 2020 Chris Ware I don’t think there’s any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don’t like or respect in at least some way or another. We’re all marginal laborers – we’re practically medical oddities – so I don’t see why we can’t all be nice to each other.
3 December 2020 Chris Ware Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There’s some amazing work being done.
3 December 2020 Chris Ware I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
