The Art of Conversation: Cartoonists Liz Montague & Chris Ware - A Virtual Event

Join KQED's Lance Gardner in conversation with cartoonists Liz Montague and Chris Ware. Twenty-four-year-old Liz Montague was the first black woman to have a cartoon featured in The New Yorker. Her series, Liz at Large, is a collection of empowering takes on themes like fear, anxiety, and uncertainty, with uplifting nuggets of wisdom to herself and the world. Chris Ware is a white, self deprecating Midwesterner with twenty-five New Yorker covers under his belt. His graphic novels - to which he devotes years of thought and labor - take readers on engrossing journeys to the depths of loneliness and dysfunction, often defying conventional narratives structures and inviting readers to inhabit the worlds of his characters. We'll explore how these different approaches to documenting the human condition help to normalize the insecurities we all share.