Roll The Dice

 

Pages of interest from the Fantagraphics anthology Snake Eyes

Vote Quimby

 

I have gone on the record to say that I don't "get" Chris Ware; one time somebody gave me a copy of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth for my birthday, and instead of sending a thank you note I defriended him from Facebook.

But! I'm nothing if not open-minded so I picked up a copy of Ware's own bootleg Mickey Quimby the Mouse, and let me tell you friends, it rules.

This is my new Twitter avatar:

The intro says Ware made most of these strips when he was a young man, and you can tell:

So I would like to formally recant one of my patented comics hot takes and testify to the comics blogosphere that celebrated New Yorker cartoonist Chris Ware is, in fact, good.