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Jimmy Corrigan: Or, the Smartest Kid on Earth
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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Fiction | Graphic Novel
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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