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Chris Ware: Inside the sketchbooks of a comics master

Chris Ware: Inside the sketchbooks of a comics master

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The latest volume of Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Date Book series is made up of pages from his personal sketchbooks, providing a window into his ideas, obsessions and insecurities. Chris tells Mattea Roach about his career as a cartoonist, staying in touch with childhood and why his daughter is the star of the comics in this book.

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