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| Title | : | Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth |
| Author | : | Chris Ware |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 380 pages |
| Published | : | May 22nd 2003 by Jonathan Cape (first published September 12th 2000) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics. Comix. Comic Book. Art |
Chris Ware
Paperback | Pages: 380 pages Rating: 4.09 | 21454 Users | 1274 Reviews
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Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize. It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, Jimmy Corrigan is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed. **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**Specify Books In Pursuance Of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
| Original Title: | Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth |
| ISBN: | 0224063979 (ISBN13: 9780224063975) |
| Characters: | Jimmy Corrigan |
| Setting: | Michigan(United States) Chicago, Illinois,1893(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Guardian First Book Award (2001), American Book Award (2001), Harvey Awards for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work (2001), Prix du Festival d'Angoulême for Alph-art du meilleur album (2003), Prix de la critique (2003) Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album: Reprint (2001) |
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Ratings: 4.09 From 21454 Users | 1274 ReviewsCommentary About Books Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
This is my third foray into the world of graphic novels. This book compels me to continue into this genre. Chris Ware tells a heart-rending story of loneliness, but what truly captured my admiration was the artwork. He does a sort of stylistic 180 from the narrative. While the story is intimate and emotional his images sort of stand back. He employs repeated frames of seemingly insignificant details, such as a bird moving along a tree branch. He emphasizes the alienation of the characters byI've read my fair share of graphic novels (though less than I should), and Chris Ware is still the one who touches me deepest. I haven't read Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home," which has piled up the accolades, but for my money nothing can beat Ware's "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth" for sheer beautiful misery. Published in 2000, one year before our national tragedy, it chronicled the awkward, lonely life of the titular loser who must deal with father issues in the bleak midwinter of his
The art gets six stars, but the content deserves less than zero stars. Hence, a generous 3. Chris Ware is the Johann Sebastian Bach of drawing graphic novels pages, but when it comes to the stories he chooses to tell - the HORROR, the HORROR! Someone else should have written the script for him, and let the author do only the drawings. This semi-autobiographical story about a character who is the caricature of insecurity is not endearing, not warm-hearted, not empathetic, not interesting, not
Numbers 14:18 The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation."This is a devastatingly heart-breaking read. A book about generations of men in a family who have been abandoned, psychologically abused, neglected, overlooked, forgotten, all with parents who should never have bred. The result is Jimmy, emotionally
I have read this 3-4 times but never felt ready to review it in the manner it deserves.. and am still not quite ready. This is a great work, maybe the very work that catapulted Ware into the upper reaches of the comics hierarchy. Ware, one of the 4-5 most influential and greatest comics writers in the world, started this graphic novel with the intention to do a summer of strips in 1995 for an alternative mag here in Chicago, New City, where is was buried where comics are usually buried, in the
THIS BOOK IS MAGIC.
This graphic novel is truly poignant. Flipping through the book, you find little superficial evidence to corroborate my statement. Which is precisely why you ought to plunge in and get past your initial impression. If you are looking for artwork à la Sandman or Kabuki, you may wrongfully judge the more simple style of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. Push forward and don't miss exploring his mind and emotions. As other readers have mentioned, the pace can be a bit sluggish and due to
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