"Dead art forms"? The Simon offers a brief, and occasionally terse, assessment of Visible and Invisible Drawings: An Evening with Chris Ware and Ira Glass, held Saturday at UCLA:

"Two talented guys working in dead art forms, they couldn’t have been more mismatched on stage. Artist and illustrator Ware, semi-famous for his Jimmy Corrigan graphic novel, played the Robert Crumb role, all misanthropy and self-deprecating asides. This American Life host Glass, nasally and ingratiating, amiably handled the P.T. Barnum part, entertaining with a showman’s brio."

The rest of the piece is a bit more positive.