The Art Institute show "The Comic Art and Architecture of Chris Ware" reveals how the cartoonist draws on Chicago's built environment.
by Tal Rosenberg
The November 10 cover of the New Yorker features a drawing by renowned cartoonist and Oak Park resident Chris Ware. It's an illustration of a health clinic at a Walmart-style big-box store: a clinician walks out of a door into the waiting area looking down at a clipboard he's holding; seated are mothers with children on their laps.…[ Read more ]