A man with glasses and a black cardigan stands in front of a bright pink wall featuring a white, abstract drawing of a face and geometric shapes.

A Conversation with Chris Ware

Name: A Conversation with Chris Ware
Start: 2026-04-22T18:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-04-22T19:00:00.000Z
Location: The Joslyn Art Museum

Wed Apr 22, 6PM–7PM

Hosted by The Joslyn and brought to you by the program’s sponsors, UNO’s School of the Arts and Service Learning Academy.

Free; registration required. Register here.

Please note that this is a special, after-hours program. Our doors will open at 5:30 pm for program participants to access Abbott Hall and Hitchcock Museum Shop; the Museum’s galleries and The Durham Cafe will be closed.

Join us as celebrated cartoonist Chris Ware discusses his career, cartooning, and most recent book Rusty Brown*, which is set in his birthplace of Omaha. He will be in conversation with fellow Eisner award-winner Caitlin Cass, a professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha. An eleven-time Eisner award-winning cartoonist, Ware was the first comic artist to exhibit their work at the Whitney Biennial, and in 2022, he had a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He has illustrated several iconic covers for The New Yorker and was recently honored with Grand Prix de la Ville d’Angoulême for lifetime achievement. In a review for The New York Times, Ed Park called Rusty Brown, “the most audacious and inspiring fiction I’ve read this year,” insisting that it expands “not just the possibilities of the form but also the mental space of [Ware’s] reader.”

*Rusty Brown by Chris Ware is available for purchase at the Museum’s Hitchcock Museum Shop.

Image: Courtesy of Basel Cartoon Museum

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