Chris Ware
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
First published in Newcity; reprint in Acme Novelty Library #5 (1995) by Fantagraphics, and in book form (2000) by Pantheon
“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.