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Chris Ware
Artist
The most celebrated living graphic artist likes to note that Chicago rests directly between the filmmaking and publishing industries, which is a good place for graphic artists to live. That’s why so many great ones reside here, Ware says. Not that he ever sees them. “We all rarely see each other, because the city is so large and cold most of the year that getting together frequently seems more trouble than it’s worth. Maybe that’s fundamentally why I like living here; Chicago feels anything but urgent. It has a grim, refreshing isolation to it.”—David Tamarkin
Ware is working on two graphic novels, Rusty Brown and Building Stories.