"I discovered Raw magazine while looking for pornography in the back room of my local Omaha comic shop," Chris Ware recalls in Outside the Box, a collection of in-depth conversations between influential cartoonists (among them Allison Bechdel, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Daniel Clowes) and Hillary L. Chute, a comics scholar and assistant prof of English at the U. of C., where she organized the wildly popular Comics: Philosophy & Practice Conference in 2012.
As we learn in Outside the Box, Chute's follow-up to 2010's Graphic Women, the pubescent Ware was bummed to learn Raw wasn't very dirty.…
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