{"id":70,"date":"2007-03-20T10:53:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T18:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/?p=70"},"modified":"2007-03-20T10:53:32","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T18:53:32","slug":"chris-ware-animates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/chris-ware-animates\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Ware animates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/player\/bcpid271557392?bctid=666401814\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=0 alt=\"ware.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog\/images\/ware.jpg\" width=\"476\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yay!  One of my favorite artists from the comics world has started animating!  You probably know Chris Ware from such works as <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375422951?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=graffiarchae-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0375422951\">The Acme Novelty Library<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=graffiarchae-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0375422951\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375404538?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=graffiarchae-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0375404538\">Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=graffiarchae-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0375404538\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, or <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1560974559?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=graffiarchae-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1560974559\">Quimby the Mouse<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=graffiarchae-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1560974559\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> (one of my personal favorite storylines).  Now he&#8217;s taken his signature storytelling style into the moving picture box for the TV adaptation of &#8220;This American Life&#8221;, with predictably excellent results.  I can&#8217;t think of a better match between form and content.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/03\/20\/chris_ware_animation.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> See also this earlier collaboration between Chris Ware and Ira Glass: <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thislife.org\/dvd\/\">Lost Buildings<\/a>.  (Thanks to Nancy for the link!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay! One of my favorite artists from the comics world has started animating! You probably know Chris Ware from such works as The Acme Novelty Library, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, or Quimby the Mouse (one of my personal favorite storylines). Now he&#8217;s taken his signature storytelling style into the moving picture box &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/chris-ware-animates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chris Ware animates!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}