Rickshaw » New YorkerRickshaw http://nest.rckshw.com Chau and B.J.'s notes from Space City Mon, 10 Jul 2017 18:55:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 Unmasked http://nest.rckshw.com/2009/10/28/unmasked/ http://nest.rckshw.com/2009/10/28/unmasked/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:50:06 +0000 http://nest.rckshw.com/?p=1455 ware_450

The incomparable Chris Ware delivers a Halloween-themed cover and comic for the New Yorker. (Cover, first page, second page.) All the Ware-isms are in evidence.

  • Not 1mm of wasted space
  • The flatly modernist feel of isometry
  • A wintry desolation that savors of Chicago
  • Pools of Hockney cerulean + a southwestern palette of pink-gray-browns
  • Keen visual wit (viz., the children’s masks = the iPhone-lit faces of the parents)
  • The quick frissons of loneliness, neglect, and distrust
  • Patterns of intergenerational friction and inertia
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