{"id":24812,"date":"2011-09-21T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T13:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thenearsightedmonkey-this-summer-lynda-barry\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:22:20","slug":"thenearsightedmonkey-this-summer-lynda-barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thenearsightedmonkey-this-summer-lynda-barry\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24812 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thenearsightedmonkey-this-summer-lynda-barry\/attachment\/24813\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lruboiJAOK1r1gqaco1_540-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com\/post\/10454263549\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">thenearsightedmonkey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>This summer, Lynda Barry wrote a little piece about Chris Ware for the U.K.\u2019s Guardian. They changed it around, but here is the original version.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018LINT\u2019 is the Near-Sighted Monkey\u2019s first pick for \u201cMost Mind Blowing Comic Book Ever Gave\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>LYNDA BARRY on CHRIS WARE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">July 8, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Chris Ware is an American cartoonist whose work is so unusual that some hesitate to call what he is doing \u2018comics\u2019. When I read his work I get a Wright Brothers feeling of being in something big, right as it\u2019s being invented \u2013 a new way to shoot through space. Eventually we will know what to call what he does, but for now \u2018graphic novel\u2019 is all we have. And it isn\u2019t the right term for what Chris Ware is doing at all. It\u2019s like calling an ambulance a \u2018graphic vehicle\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>Some think what is happening in his work might be literature and they think this is a compliment. There are books about how to read comics in a serious way as if they <em>were <\/em>literature, how to take them apart to find out what makes them go. \u00a0If you do this with Chris Ware\u2019s comics you\u2019ll find the complicated structure you\u2019ve been told is there, but you\u2019ll miss everything else. Looking at a diagram of an airplane is not the same as being able to glide as one. <\/p>\n<p>LINT, his newest book of comics, was Kitty Hawk for me. It\u2019s like the time machine my nephew once wished for, \u201c<em>It flys and it has a turning knob for future, past and also meanwhile<\/em>.\u201d And when you turn the \u2018meanwhile\u2019 knob on this particular machine you will see <em>through<\/em> time. You\u2019ll see through to middle of the heartbreaking things and know just how they all came about, and why this is the only way to say it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thenearsightedmonkey: This summer, Lynda Barry wrote a little piece about Chris Ware for the U.K.\u2019s Guardian. They changed it around, but here is the original version. \u2018LINT\u2019 is the Near-Sighted Monkey\u2019s first pick for \u201cMost Mind Blowing Comic Book Ever Gave\u201d LYNDA BARRY on CHRIS WARE July 8, 2011 Chris Ware is an American cartoonist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[544,812],"class_list":["post-24812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","tag-chris-ware","tag-lynda-barry","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6sc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24814,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24812\/revisions\/24814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}