# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-ware
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:41:29.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-ware"
name: "Chris Ware"
slug: "chris-ware"
description: "Franklin Christenson Ware is an American cartoonist known for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), Building Stories (2012) and Rusty Brown (2019). His works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression. He tends to use a vivid color palette and realistic, meticulous detail. His lettering and images are often elaborate and sometimes evoke the ragtime era or another early 20th-century American design style."
tagline: "American cartoonist known for his Acme Novelty Library series (begun 1994) and several graphic novels (1967- )"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Ware_2019_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1967-12-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.43478133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1955042/"
    handle:    "nm1955042"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A1_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8"
    title: "כריס וייר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A2"
    title: "クリス・ウェア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "کرس ویئر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a61c9868-3841-4f7d-8c59-0f1afe0a137e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1077842"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1670192"
    title: "Chris Ware"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump