I found Chris Ware’s work to be very well thought out. I appreciated in his interview when he said he developed it over a span of time, even some of the characters, because this adds a sense of spontaneity. However, I have never been into comics. I have tried to look at them one time. I do not ever really understand them. Therefore, I have not learned to develop an appreciation for comics, which is what I feel like is needed to truly accept Ware’s work.

What I do appreciate about Ware, though, is the intent behind his pieces. In the interview, he explains that the intention behind having Jimmy Corrigan meet his father later in life is to reenact his own real-life story. I think any artist is most successful when their work is something that reflects their own life. He also said in his article that the hardest part of making a comic is to properly express the emotions the characters are supposed to feel and trying to make the audience feel those same emotions. That is why I feel that using his own experiences as inspiration made him as successful as he has been.

The other part of the interview, which I found particularly interesting, was his idea that the comic book is like music. There have been so many artists whose work is solely based on expressing the feeling of music. It could be my lack of knowledge about comic strips, but I do not usually think of music when I think of comics. However, when he went into further detail, I can understand why he would express his work as similar to music. There is a definite flow and feel to these comics that produce to the audience a sense of sound.