Ware demonstrates that the language and pictographs in cheap comical chapbooklets can evolve into fine art, if the author maintains enough courage to eliminate everything unnecessary. Crosshatching is replaced with solid blocks of colour designed to elicit a specific emotional response. Perspective can be abandoned in favour of flattened, foreshortened orthographic angles of view. Jimmy Corrigan, curious Quimby the Mouse and associates are rendered simply by hand with precision. His comics and illustrations depict anger, isolation, guilt and more.
He regards Charles Schulz and Frank King as majour influences upon his work.
Ware is an illustrator who completly re-designed the form and function of a comic, he uses complex structures, colours and symbols to create a comic in an innovative way using the same principals but lays the narratives out within a technical yet understandable structure. Within his work wether it be a colour or an image something links the pieces together and I have found his work to be very influential upon my own and for future reference.
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