McSweeney’s Goes Seriously Comic

The latest issue of Dave Eggers’s McSweeney’s has been given over to comic art legend Chris Ware, who uses the occasion to take readers who ordinarily might not give comic art a second thought on a tour of the modern scene. “Ware’s curatorial tastes are generally quite broad… Even so, you can see his particular selectivity in the McSweeney’s picks. Ware prefers minimal, iconic, impressionistic drawing to the more deliberate rendering of the European school (“Blacksad” artist Juanjo Guarnido, say), and his introduction is quick to dismiss the comics aesthetic that’s grounded in old superhero comic books.”