Chris Ware | Granta Magazine

Chris Ware

Chris Ware lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is the author of Jimmy Corrigan­ – the Smartest Kid on Earth. He has guest-edited McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and Houghton-Mifflin’s Best American Comics, and was the first cartoonist chosen to regularly serialize an ongoing story in the New York Times Magazine. A contributor to the New Yorker and the Virginia Quarterly Review, his work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and later enjoyed an exhibit of its own at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.