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Also by Chris Ware:

Jimmy Corrigan: Or, the Smartest Kid on Earth, March 2001
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JIMMY CORRIGAN: OR, THE SMARTEST KID ON EARTH
By: Chris Ware

Winner of the 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Graphic Novel.

Pantheon
March 2001
380 pages
ISBN: 0375404538
EAN: 9780375404535
Hardcover
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Graphic Novel | Fiction

This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time.

An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement.

The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.

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