A NEW CHRIS WARE GRAPHIC NOVEL 19 YEARS IN THE MAKING

SEPT. 24

ver since 2000, when the release of earned him recognition beyond comic book fans and readers of , and even as he began and curating museum exhibits, Chris Ware has been preoccupied with one endeavor: producing a second graphic novel. “At a certain point, however,” the 51-year-old Oak Park resident says, “I realized that this particular book would likely be my uneasy companion for the better part of my life — not unlike the memories which we all keep locked inside and regularly look up, somehow revise, or edit, and then put back in the cold storage of our minds until, really, the day we die.”