Chris Ware
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Acme Novelty Library #5
Fantagraphics, 1995
(Series first published in Newcity; reprint by Fantagraphics in Acme Novelty Library #5–6, 8–9, 11–14, from 1995 to 2000, and by Pantheon Books in book form in 2000)
My wife always tells me never to use the word magic, but I can’t help it, there is no other word: there is a magic when you read an image that you know doesn’t move but you have a sense that something is moving, if not on the page then in your mind.
Chris Ware, interviewed by Stuart Kelly in The Guardian in 2013*
* Quote added after the original publication of this post.