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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, to bird.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm, and I can hardly stay in my chair.

I'm so excited about the show today.

I have two guests, Linda Barry and Chris Ware.

Linda Barry has a new book called Making Comics, but you know, you probably have known her

for years as the divisor and assembler of Ernie Pooks, Kamik's, and Chris Ware,

Jimmy Corrigan, the smartest boy in the world. Each book becoming, dare I say it, more

complex than the last?

Is that an accurate description?

That's a very kind of you.

That's the aim.

I feel that every time we open a book or a work of art,

we should be facing something we may never have seen before.

Yeah, I agree entirely.

Some 30 years ago, Art Spiegelman was led to agree that if we could take frequent breaks,

he would come into the studio even though he has to smoke.

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