Editing Chris Ware (section)

==Non-comics work==
Ware is an ardent collector of [[ragtime]] paraphernalia and occasionally publishes a journal devoted to the music titled ''[[The Ragtime Ephemeralist]]''.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=technology&res=9F00E7D7103DF932A15752C0A9679C8B63 | work=The New York Times | title=Ragtime: No Longer A Novelty In Sepia | first=David | last=Wondrich | date=January 21, 2001 | access-date=April 29, 2010}}</ref> He also plays the [[banjo]] and [[piano]]. The influence of the music and the graphics of its era can be seen in Ware's work, especially in regard to logos and layout. Ware has designed album covers and posters for such ragtime performers as the Et Cetera String Band, Virginia Tichenor, [[Reginald R. Robinson]], the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and [[Guido Nielsen]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://syncopatedtimes.com/graphic-novelist-chris-ware-discusses-the-leitmotif-of-ragtime-in-his-life-and-work/ | work=The Syncopated Times | title=Graphic novelist Chris Ware discusses the leitmotif of Ragtime in his life and work | first=Larry | last=Melton | date=October 27, 2019 | access-date=October 30, 2019}}</ref>

He has also designed covers and posters for non-ragtime performers such as [[Andrew Bird|Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire]] and 5ive Style.<ref>[http://www.acmenoveltyarchive.org/category.php?cat=3 "Album Artwork"]. [[Acme Novelty Library]] Archive. Retrieved November 26, 2012.</ref> In October 2005 Ware designed the elaborate cover art for [[Penguin Books]]' new edition of [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide]]''.

Ware was commissioned by [[Chip Kidd]] to design the inner machinations of the bird on the cover of [[Haruki Murakami]]'s novel ''[[The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Haruki Murakami at Random House|publisher=[[Random House]]|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/features/murakami/site.php|access-date=13 July 2012}}</ref>

In 2003-04, Ware worked with [[Ira Glass]] of ''[[This American Life]]'' and Chicago historian Tim Samuelson to illustrate and design ''Lost Buildings'' about Samuelson and the preservation of Chicago's old buildings, particularly [[Louis Sullivan]]'s buildings.<ref name="Ball, p. xvii">Ball, p. xvii</ref><ref>Ball, p. 13</ref> Originally produced for a live "Lost in America" stage show in 2003, ''Lost Buildings'' was later published as a book and DVD.<ref>Ball, p. 118</ref> In 2007-08, he produced animations for the ''This American Life'' television series on [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]<ref name="Ball, p. xvii"/> and also contributed to the show as a color consultant. Ware created poster art for [[Tamara Jenkins]]' 2007 film ''[[The Savages (film)|The Savages]]'' and her 2018 film ''[[Private Life (2018 film)|Private Life]]''.

===Mural for 826 Valencia===
[[Dave Eggers]] commissioned Ware to design the mural for the facade of San Francisco literacy project [[826 Valencia]].<ref name="mural-eye">{{cite web|last=Thompson|first=David|title=Chris Ware's new mural tells the story of the human race|url=http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=87&fid=460|publisher=Eye Magazine|access-date=27 May 2011|year=2001}}</ref> The mural depicts "the parallel development of humans and their efforts at and motivations for communication, spoken and written."<ref name="mural-826">{{cite web|title=Our Façade |url=http://www.826valencia.org/store/facade.html |publisher=826 Valencia |access-date=27 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727142455/http://www.826valencia.org/store/facade.html |archive-date=27 July 2011 }}</ref> The 3.9m x 6m mural was applied by artisans to Ware’s specifications.<ref name="mural-eye"/> Describing the work, Ware said "I didn’t want it to make anyone 'feel good', especially in that typically muralistic 'hands across the water' sort of way,"..."I especially wanted it to be something that people living in the neighbourhood could look at day after day and hopefully not tire of too quickly. I really hoped whomever might happen to come across it would find something that showed a respect for their intelligence, and didn’t force-feed them any 'message'."<ref name="mural-eye"/>

===''Fortune'' 500 cover===
In 2010, Ware designed the cover for ''[[Fortune magazine|Fortune]]'' magazine's "Fortune 500" issue, but it was rejected.<ref>[http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/04/22/chris-wares-rejected-fortune-cover/ ComicsBeat.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428134645/http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/04/22/chris-wares-rejected-fortune-cover/ |date=April 28, 2010 }}</ref> Ware had mentioned the work at a panel at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo on April 16, as first noted in an April 20 blog post by Matthew J. Brady.<ref name="indiepulp.blogspot.com">{{Cite web | url=http://indiepulp.blogspot.com/2010/04/c2e2-2010-pantheon-panel-featuring.html | title=C2E2 2010: The Pantheon panel, featuring Chris Ware and Dash Shaw}}</ref> The cover, featuring the circle-shaped humans common in Ware's more broadly socially satirical comic-strips, turned the numbers 500 into skyscrapers looming over the continental United States. On the roofs, corporate bosses drink, dance, and sun themselves as a helicopter drops a shovelful of money down for them. Below, among signs reading "Credit Default Swap Flea Market," "Greenspan Lube Pro," and "401K Cemetery," a helicopter scoops money out of the US Treasury with a shovel, cars pile up in Detroit, and flag-waving citizens party around a boiling tea kettle in the shape of an elephant. In the Gulf of Mexico, homes are sinking, while hooded prisoners sit in Guantanamo, a "Factory of Exploitation" keeps going in Mexico, China is tossing American dollars into the Pacific, and the roof of bankrupted Greece's Treasury has blown off. A spokesperson for the magazine only said that, as is their practice, they had commissioned a number of possible covers from different artists, including Ware.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gawker.com/5523119/fortune-magazine-rejects-satirical-chris-ware-cover |title=''Fortune'' Magazine Rejects Satirical Chris Ware Cover |access-date=2010-04-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426125121/http://gawker.com/5523119/fortune-magazine-rejects-satirical-chris-ware-cover |archive-date=2010-04-26 }}</ref> Brady wrote in his blog that Ware said at the panel he "accepted the job because it would be like doing the [cover for the] 1929 issue of the magazine".<ref name="indiepulp.blogspot.com"/>

===''Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives''===
In 2011, Ware created the poster for the U.S. release of the 2010 film ''[[Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives]]'' by Thai director [[Apichatpong Weerasethakul]].<ref name="cw-ny">{{cite web|title=Vulture Premieres the Poster for Cannes Hit Uncle Boonmee, Designed by Chris Ware|url=http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/uncle_boonmee_poster.html|work=Vulture|publisher=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|access-date=26 May 2011|date=2011-02-08}}</ref> Describing the poster, Ware said "I wanted to get at both the transcendent solemnity of the film while keeping some sense of its loose, very unpretentious accessibility... This being a poster, however—and even worse, me not really being a designer—I realized it also had to be somewhat punchy and strange, so as to draw viewers in and pique their curiosity without, hopefully, insulting their intelligence."<ref name="cw-nwt">{{cite news|title=Ghost Stories|url=http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/ghost-stories/|work=The New York Times|access-date=26 May 2011|date=2011-05-23|first=Sheila|last=Glaser}}</ref>