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Chris Ware, back cover

April 24, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

CW: “Yeah, it’s a map of this story. I mean, the title is “The Smartest Kid on Earth,”, so the front of it is the character and on the back is the Earth. It’s a joke, the title itself is sort of a joke on how you think of yourself as an adolescent in America, where you feel like you know everything, and by extension America in a way sort of thinks it knows everything too.”

Chris Ware interview: part 1, part 2.

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  1. mike says

    March 29, 2014 at 6:17 am

    Deeply moving. Chris downplays his massive achievement.

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