Chris Ware/Ira Glass show at UCLA

Last Saturday I went to the Chris Ware (ACME comics) & Ira Glass (This American Life) show at UCLA. Totally brilliant.
All about a little boy in the 1960s trying to convince others to save Chicago's distinctive architecture - most of which came from the late 19th - early 20th century.
Chris Ware has got to be the best cartoonist working today...

My favorite quote of the night:

IRA GLASS: "You love everything old and hate everything new, don't you?"

CHRIS WARE: "Well, I don't love cholera."

Any other Ware fans out there?

Hi- I am a huge Chris Ware fan. I am originally from Chicago and I love the way he draws the city. I met him once and told him I loved the way he draws snow, which I think he though I was nuts and says that you don't acutally draw snow, you draw around it. I think I redemed myself by switching to talk about Chicago style hot dogs.

I saw he was going to be speaking in L.A but couldn't convince my husband to go even though he is a big Ira Glass fan.

Any other highlights of the night? Did he say what he is working on now?

On 2004-04-15 10:45, Tiare wrote:
Any other highlights of the night? Did he say what he is working on now?

Just that it was a really beautiful (flash animation?) story about Louis Sullivan's 19th century architecture & Tim Samuelson's attempts (as a kid) to save it... Ware did about 260 individual drawings for it - I hope they can release it in some form. He also showed some of the things he is working on, including some Rusty Brown strips which are being pblished in NewCity - a Chicago weekly (similar to L.A. Weekly here). I asked him how I could get a hold of that - he just laughed & said, "Oh, you don't want to do that..." I'm sure some of it will come out in the next ACME comics....
He also had a preview copy of McSweeny's #13 - which he is editing & doing some art for.

It's a beautiful hardcover book - you can pre-order it here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~copaceticcomicsco/McSweeneys13.html
which I suggest as they tend to sell out fast.
Also - I know this:

is coming out on Dark Horse -
http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=13-064
Just cover art though....
He also has a Rusty Brown lunchbox(?!!!!!) through them:

I also forgot -
His artwork for the new 4-disc set collecting Guido Neilsen's Complete Joplin
Rags, Waltzes, Marches, and Songs should be available next month on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001Z4PHS/104-5089824-7643126?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I1QFK8CQ224FR&colid=278ZW0SV2RRMY#product-details

He is also working on the new Ragtime Ephemeralist #4 (his insanely detailed "zine" about Ragtime music) - which should come out later this Summer.

Check out the obsession at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ephemeralist/