Happy Thanksgiving

In 2006 for the Thanksgiving issue, Chris Ware did four different covers for The New Yorker plus an inside mini- comic. I posted them all below. Click the pictures to see larger versions so you can see what an amazing illustrator Ware is. Notice how one cover is a single panel, one has two panels, the next has four, and the next has many panels.
As an extra treat, listen to Ware talk about how he conceived these covers here. Almost all of you expressed an interest in art, so here you go -- Ware is basically a postmodern version of Norman Rockwell.
But study each of these covers closely and you'll find that they tell an inter-related story, that there is a time line of events, and it all ends in tragedy. But you have to look very, very closely.

FYI: Ware was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics." Ware is also the first comics artist to be invited to exhibit at Whitney Museum of American Art biennial exhibition, in 2002. In May 2006 he exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Ware's graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth won the 2001 Guardian First Book Award, the first time a graphic novel has won a major United Kingdom book award. It also won the prize for best album at the 2003 Angoulême International Comics Festival in France.