Chris Ware on 'Society is Nix'
When he\u2019s not drawing, Chris Ware likes to read and look at vintage comics. He highly recommends a book that defies even his powers of description \u2014 a folio-sized reproduction of some of America\u2019s first newspaper cartoons, made long before super-heroes and adventure stories took over the medium. Back then, he says, the medium could be anything \u2014 and was.
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\n\nSociety is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy of the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915
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