Chris Ware is the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and the annual amateur periodical The ACME Novelty Library. A contributor to The New Yorker and The Virginia Quarterly Review, Mr. Ware was the first cartoonist chosen to regularly serialize an ongoing story in The New York Times Magazine in 2005-2006. He edited the 13th issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern in 2004 as well as Houghton-Mifflin’s Best American Comics 2007, and his work was the focus of an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2006 and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska in 2007. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois with his wife, Marnie, a high school science teacher, and their daughter, Clara.