New Exhibit Celebrates Chicago As ‘Comics Capital’ Of The World
“Chicago is a place where there’s a lot of very strange experiments in comics. Very unusual and surprising ones, Chris Ware said.
By Stephanie Kim
New Exhibit Celebrates Chicago As ‘Comics Capital’ Of The World
“Chicago is a place where there’s a lot of very strange experiments in comics. Very unusual and surprising ones, Chris Ware said.
By Stephanie Kim
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The history of comics in Chicago is so expansive that there had to be two separate exhibitions dedicated to it: one at the Chicago Cultural Center and another at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Reset learns more about how comics came to life in Chicago and what makes the city a special place for cartoonists and other artists.
GUEST: Chris Ware, author and artist; co-curator of “Chicago: Where Comics Came To Life (1880-1960)”