Manuel Mandujano: Chris Ware Response

When reading and learning about the type of art Chris Ware was making in his interview, I had mixed emotions. When I was growing up, I had a few comic books: of course, they were spiderman and superman and batman. I never really had the thought that comic book art was meant to be deeper or to have emotions behind them-that is, I saw comic books as something to be used purely for entertainment. After learning about all the various types of art there are, I would say that Chris Ware's falls closer to what one would label "traditional art". That is, Chris Ware's art contains pictures/ drawings of people and places and is more than just the projection of words.

I feel that every artist has a right to create art in any way they want and let their art mean whatever they wish. That being said, I feel that a type of art being labeled as "comic book art" has many limitations and makes it difficult to portray any kind of deeper emotion or meaning than what it portrays at face value.

I find that Chris Ware's form of art is one of the most difficult because it entitles him to make a story line with characters and a plot. All of the other artists simply made their images, be it with font or images, and than were done. Chris Ware is obviously in the same field of art as the one's we've studied because of his use of letters and words in his pieces. Although Ware could be considered in the same field, however, I feel that what he is doing is drastically different from that of the other artists.