"The feeling of failure lingered all day, prodding me into digging out all my old notebooks and pointedly rediscovering what a terrible writer I was, how stupid and trite my ideas were, and, really, what a bad artist I was, as well. "Isn't there anyone who will be able to tolerate my disgusting, bloated body?" "What did I do to make him hate me so much?" "At that point I was starting to get acquainted with the unfairness of life and learning it was better not to expect anything rather than set yourself up for disappointment." "Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the end of the world." Plaintive, regretful and bitterly self-recriminating thoughts play on shuffle-repeat inside their heads, like a mordant Litany for the (I Wish I Were) Dead: He is best known for his Acme Novelty Library series and for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth.įor the characters of Chris Ware's astonishingly ambitious comics project Building Stories, leading lives of quiet desperation is surprisingly noisy business. Chris Ware is a comic book artist and cartoonist.
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