Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Provides useful information about comic books and graphic novels as topics of academic research at the University of Michigan.
About Chris Ware
Chris Ware is an American cartoonist and book designer, best known for his Acme Novelty Library series, from which the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan was taken.
Chris Ware Biography & Criticism
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Chris Ware by Daniel Raeburn
Call Number: PN 6727 .W27 Z5 R34 2004ISBN: 0300102917Publication Date: 2004 -
Chris Ware: Conversations by Jean Braithwaite (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6727 .W27 Z5 C47 2017ISBN: 1496809297Publication Date: 2016 -
Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan : honing the hybridity of the graphic novel by DJ Dycys
Call Number: PN 6727.W285 Z74 2012ISBN: 9781443835275Publication Date: 2012 -
The Comics of Chris Ware by David M. Ball (Editor); Martha B. Kuhlman (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6727 .W27 Z5 C66 2010ISBN: 9781604734423Publication Date: 2010
Chris Ware Bibliography
Major works by Chris Ware in the U-M Library collection. For others, do an author search in the Library Catalog for "Ware, Chris, 1967-"
See also Chris Ware comics available online in the Underground and Independant Comics database.
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The Acme Novelty Datebook by Chris Ware
Call Number: PN 6727 .W27 A26 2005ISBN: 1896597661Publication Date: 2005 -
Building Stories by Chris Ware
Call Number: PN 6727 .W285 B85 2012ISBN: 9780375424335Publication Date: 2012 -
Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware
Call Number: PN 6727 .W27 J56 2000ISBN: 0375404538Publication Date: 2000 -
Monograph by Chris Ware by Chris Ware
Call Number: PN 6727 .W27 Z5 A3 2017 (Folio Storage)ISBN: 0847860884Publication Date: 2017 -
Quimby the Mouse by Chris Ware
Call Number: PN 6727 .W27 Q56 2003 (Oversize)ISBN: 1560974559Publication Date: 2003 -
Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
Call Number: PN 6727 .W285 R87 2019ISBN: 9780375424328Publication Date: 2019
Chris Ware Articles
A selection of journal articles about Chris Ware and his works. To find more, search in the Library Articles Search on "Chris Ware", limiting to articles from scholarly journals.
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Books with Bodies: Narrative Progression in Chris Ware's Building Storiesby Ghosal, Torsa
Storyworlds Vol. 7, Issue 1. Date: 2015 Pages: 75-99. -
Chris Ware (Interview)by Gary Groth In The Comics Journal, no. 200. (Fantagraphics Books, 1997). page(s) 120-180
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Chris Ware's Epiphanic Comicsby Freedman, A
PARTIAL ANSWERS-JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS Vol. 13, Issue 2. Date: 2015-06-00 Pages: 337-358. -
Comics Architecture, Multidimensionality, and Time: Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earthby Bredehoft, Thomas A
MFS Modern Fiction Studies Vol. 52, Issue 4. Date: 01/22/2007 Pages: 869-890. -
Graphic Whiteness and the Lessons of Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corriganby Bennett, Juda, Jackson, Cassandra
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies Vol. 5, Issue 1. Date: 2010 -
"Mosaic Thresholds": Manifesting the Collection and Production of Comics in the works of Chris Wareby Mauro, Aaron
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies Vol. 5, Issue 1. Date: 2010 -
Multimodal Thought Presentation in Chris Ware’s Building Storiesby Massimiliano Morini
Multimodal Communication Vol. 4, Issue 1. Date: 2015-6-1 Pages: 31-41. -
Narrating urban assemblages-Chris Ware and Building Storiesby Dittmer, Jason
Social & Cultural Geography Vol. 15, Issue 5. Date: 20140704 Pages: 477-503. -
The poetics of modernism in the graphic novel. Chris ware's jimmy corrigan as a neomodernist textby Olsza, Małgorzata
Art Inquiry Vol. 18, Issue 1. Date: 2016-00-00 Pages: 199-218. -
The Politics of the Diagram as Graphic Narrative: Chris Ware and Chad McCailby Cohn, Jesse
SubStance Vol. 46, Issue 2. Date: 2017 Pages: 33-49.
Last Updated: Nov 25, 2025 2:36 PM
Subjects: Arts, Humanities
Tags: comics