The first and much-anticipated monograph by multi-award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist Chris Ware,chronicling his influential quarter-century career.This volume is a personal,massive,never-before-seen look at how the artist's life and work combine,beginning with his newspaper family and the influence of their work; his art-school days in Austin and Chicago; to his career from the early 1990s to the present day. It also delves into how,as a storyteller and builder,his near-compulsion to build in three dimensions feeds into the thinking of his innovative narrative art. The book contains a comprehensive collection of his work,including many previously unpublished examples.