In one painting, Jerry’s head peeps through a rip in the paper ceiling above his father, who sits in an easy chair below; in another, old Jerry sits at the kitchen table talking to his young mother, easily half his age.
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Chris Ware,
The New York Review of Books,
12 Aug. 2026
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