Chris Ware fans have two new large format pieces to savor. Ware, the Chicago cartoonist and graphic artist responsible for the Jimmy Corrigan books, has a fitting cornucopia of art related to the new issue of the New Yorker. He created four different covers, all related to a huge cartoon, "Leftovers," available for viewing on the New Yorker site.

Previously, Ware created the cover for a special supplement, Writers on Writers, that comes with the latest issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. That publication features short stories in which a famous writer appears. Joyce Carol Oates tackles Emily Dickinson, Jonathan Lethem writes of Philip K. Dick and John McNally fictionalizes Nelson Algren. Ware's cover art plays off the collection's premise.

Both covers are reminiscent of the work Ware did for McSweeney's all-comics issue a couple of years ago.

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