Rocket Sam in "Tis the Season of Giving on Planet X-38"

<p>Ware, who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1991 to 1993, is one of the foremost writers and designers of graphic novels, creating serials and one-off panels that he has described as an “art of the people.” This drawing, from the artist’s <em>Rocket Sam</em> series, is an example of the large-panel comics that Ware drew for the <em>Chicago Reader</em>. In this episode a profoundly lonely spaceman builds a robot and instructs it to give him a Christmas present; the final sequence reveals the scheme’s comic ending. Influenced by Charles Schulz’s treatment of his characters in <em>Peanuts</em>, Ware strives to make the reader “feel through the character” in his work.</p>