![]() This reminded Ware of the cycles of art throughout history. ![]() Ware found some rare encouragement from Richard Keane, “a talented and loquacious 70-plus professor emeritus teaching a single life drawing class.” Keane shared stories about teaching at SAIC in the 1950s, when he was one of only two teachers “still representing the human form, to their occasional ridicule by the rest of the faculty,” Ware recalled. Subsisting on corn tortillas, eggs, refried beans, peanut butter, and Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, Ware would spend long hours in his studio “trying to get ever better at writing, drawing from life.” He was “sketching people, places, and things on the bus and train and feeling especially talentless and self-conscious about it, since drawing recognizable images was still largely frowned upon in the art world.” Ware matriculated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for a master of fine arts in printmaking-and quickly learned that at a school renowned for conceptualism, some considered realism passé. After contributing to Spiegelman’s publication Raw, Ware decided to pursue a graduate degree in art to develop his skills as an artistic storyteller. It was there in the 1980s that Ware began publishing comic strips in the student newspaper and eventually caught the attention of Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus, the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize. ![]() ![]() Ware was born and raised in Nebraska and went to college at the University of Texas at Austin. ![]()
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