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Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes

The work of novelists Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes is characterized by complexity, beauty and sophistication. Guess what? They write comics!

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By Michael Silverblatt • Nov 30, 2000 • 30m Listen

Here are two novelists whose work is characterized by complexity, beauty and sophistication. Guess what? They write comics. With the participation of designer Chip Kidd, masterminds

Chris Ware (

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

) and

Daniel Clowes (

David Boring) discuss their fusion of comic books and (gasp!) post-modern fiction.

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    Michael Silverblatt

    host, 'Bookworm'

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