Editing Chris Ware (section)

==Recurring characters and stories==
[[File:Sollies Ville - Chris Ware - P1200285.jpg|alt=Ware looking to the side|thumb|Ware in 2009]]

===Quimby the Mouse===
[[Quimby the Mouse]] was an early character for Ware and something of a breakthrough. Rendered in the style of an early animation character like [[Felix the Cat]], Quimby the Mouse is perhaps Ware's most autobiographical character. Quimby's relationship with a cat head named Sparky is by turns conflict-ridden and loving, and thus intended to reflect all human relationships. While Quimby exhibits mobility, Sparky remains immobile and helpless, subject to all the indignities Quimby visits upon him. Quimby also acts as a narrator for Ware's reminiscences of his youth, in particular his relationship with his grandmother. Sometimes illustrated as a two-headed mouse, Quimby embodies both Ware and his grandmother, and the duality of a young and old body. Quimby was presented in a series of smaller panels than most comics, almost providing the illusion of motion à la a [[zoetrope]]. In fact, Ware once designed a zoetrope to be cut out and constructed by the reader in order to watch a Quimby "[[silent movie]]". Ware's ingenuity is neatly shown in this willingness to break from the confines of the page.  Quimby the Mouse appears in the logo of a Chicago-based bookstore "[http://www.quimbys.com Quimby's]", although their shared name was originally a coincidence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.quimbys.com/premise.php |title=Quimby's :: Mission |date=April 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061122153052/http://quimbys.com/premise.php |archive-date=22 November 2006 |url-status=live |access-date=29 March 2007 }}</ref>

===Rusty Brown===
Ware's ''[[Rusty Brown]]'' focuses on the titular character, examining his life in the present and through flashbacks of his childhood, focusing on his arrested development and attachment to cultural objects. As the story expands, it diverges into multiple storylines about Brown's father's early life in the 1950s as a [[science fiction]] writer (''Acme Novelty Library #19'') and his best friend Chalky White's adult home life. The first part of ''Rusty Brown'' was published in book form in 2019 by [[Pantheon Books]].<ref>{{Cite book |isbn = 978-0375424328|title = Rusty Brown|last1 = Ware|first1 = Chris|year = 2019| publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing }}</ref>

===Building Stories===
Ware's ''[[Building Stories]]'' was serialized in a host of different venues.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Crucifix|first=Benoît|date=2017-03-27|title=From loose to boxed fragments and back again. Seriality and archive in Chris Ware's Building Stories|journal=Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics|volume=9|pages=3–22|doi=10.1080/21504857.2017.1303619|issn=2150-4857|url=https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/207728|hdl=1854/LU-8636031|s2cid=194415161|hdl-access=free}}</ref> It first appeared as a monthly strip in ''Nest Magazine''. Installments later appeared in a number of publications, including ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''Kramer's Ergot'', and most notably, the Sunday ''[[New York Times Magazine]]''. ''Building Stories'' appeared weekly in the ''New York Times Magazine'' from September 18, 2005 until April 16, 2006. A full chapter was published in ''Acme Novelty Library'', number 18. Another installment was published under the title "Touch Sensitive" as a digital app released through [[McSweeney's|McSweeneys]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kashtan|first=Aaron|date=2015-09-03|title="And it Had Everything in it": Building Stories, Comics, and the Book of the Future|journal=Studies in the Novel|volume=47|issue=3|pages=420–447|doi=10.1353/sdn.2015.0034|s2cid=162112188|issn=1934-1512}}</ref> The entire narrative was published as a boxed set of books by Pantheon in October 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pantheonbooks.tumblr.com/post/11400771147/new-chris-ware-project |title=New Chris Ware project | publisher=Pantheon Books | date=October 13, 2011 | access-date=January 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=http://pantheonbooks.tumblr.com/post/23481173598/chris-ware-building-stories-revealed |title=Chris Ware Building Stories revealed | publisher=Pantheon Books| date=May 21, 2012 | access-date=June 2, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/book/185702/building-stories-by-chris-ware | title=Building Stories |publisher=Random House |date=May 2012 | access-date=June 2, 2012}}</ref> The boxed set holds 14 different works, in various sizes and forms, weaving through the life of an unnamed brown haired woman.

===''The Last Saturday''===
Ware's latest project, ''[[The Last Saturday]]'', a "comic novella," began appearing online every Friday at the website of the UK newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]'', starting in September 2014. The story follows a few people in Sandy Port, Michigan: Putnam Gray, a young boy caught up in his sci-fi and space fantasies; Sandy Grains, a young girl and classmate who is interested in Putnam; Rosie Gentry, a young girl and classmate with whom Putnam is infatuated; Mr. and Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Grains. The strip also features in the newspaper's Weekend magazine.

The serialization has now apparently ended after 54 instalments. The bottom right-hand corner of the last page has a note that says, "END, PART ONE", but {{as of|2020|lc=yes}}, there appears to be no indication from ''The Guardian'' or from Ware that there is to be a Part Two.