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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth [Paperback]

Chris Ware (Author)

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Publication Date: 22 May 2003

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.

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Paperback: 380 pages
Publisher: Jonathan Cape; New Ed edition (22 May 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0224063979
ISBN-13: 978-0224063975
Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 3.4 x 16.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 94,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #46 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Publishers > Fantagraphics

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"Jimmy Corrigan is certainly the greatest thing in strip cartoons since Krazy Kat and Little Nemo" (Raymond Briggs )

"Ware is the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has known - arguably the greatest achievement of the form ever" (Dave Eggers New York Times Book Review )

"This new book seems to be another milestone in the demonstration of what comics can be" (Art Spiegelman, Author Of Maus )

"Chris Ware has produced a book as beautiful as any published this year, but also one which challenges us to think again about what literature is and where it is going" (Claire Armitstead Guardian )

"Perhaps best read in a single sitting, Jimmy Corrigan is perceptive, poetic, and sometimes profound, generously rewarding the absorption it requires" (Independent )

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The most ambitious, beautiful, moving 'comic book' ever produced: an astonishing tour de force that won the Guardian First Book Award 2001 and The American Book Award 2001. (20021018)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Buy the hardcover edition! 29 Mar 2010

By Vibeke Semstad

Format:Paperback

Jimmy Corrigan is an above-average comic but please, for god's sake, do not buy the paperback edition! As I'm reading it the first time, the book is falling apart. This is not cool, since the comic itself it great. I wish I'd thrown in those extra bucks and bought the hardcover.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Quite brilliant. Just not quite sure how. Or why 27 July 2009

By Chris Widgery VINE™ VOICE

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I should probably have bought this book, but borrowed it from the library instead. I'd picked it up a few times in bookshops but always put it back. Something about it was just off putting. Now I have read it, I realise I need to buy a copy to read again next year. And the year after and the year after.

The story is nothing much, really. Jimmy Corrigan, a middle aged, desperately unhappy man, travels to meet the father he never knew, and meets the sister he never knew he had. His mother remains behind, with her unceasing demands upon him. At the same time, his ancestor is growing up at the end of the nineteenth century, as they are building the Worlds Fair.

The drawings are fine, the story is fine. Three stars, no problem.

But something about it grabs hold and doesn't let go. It's the loneliness, the desperation and the search for something meaningful to cling onto that makes this stand out from the crowd. The visual style is sparse and minimal, which just fits the subject matter.

It's not something that is incredibly enjoyable as such, but it is powerful, strangely affecting and lingers long in the mind.

Well, well worth a look.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Full of strange moments that should be familiar to everyone 18 Nov 2003

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I bought this on a whim the other day and I was rather pleased with the work. A very detailed piece of literature - both in the art and the storytelling - it revolves around several generations of men named James Corrigan. The author started drawing the character for a weekly newspaper with no intention of turning it into a volume - and it shows. (The characters look a bit different from beginning to end, and the plot takes a good 50 pages to kick in.) The best moments are those from the eyes of the child versions of Corrigan - as his character is so socially impaired as an adult it becomes excruciating to sympathize with him. (I still don't fully understand why he's called 'The Smartest Kid on Earth.') But a bittersweet ending and lucious drawings on every page, its a unique experience worth checking out. Grab a soda and read it at the bookstore, but don't shell out the cash unless you've a bit accustomed to the graphic novel format, as the style of this book will surely test you!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice

It is a very nice and easy-reading book-comik for vacations, or having sunbath in a great beach at a Greek island.

Published 1 month ago by Fmguru

4.0 out of 5 stars A weird but creative graphic novel

I read a few glowing reviews of Jimmy Corgan: The Smartest Kid on Earth before I bought it, but now having read it, I think it's fair warning to say this won't be everyone's cup of... Read more

Published on 29 Oct 2010 by Maciej K. Wasilewicz

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Almost perfect. Almost. In my opinion, it gets a bit too clean and ordinary towards the end and loses the denseness that makes three quarters of the book an absolute... Read more

Published on 22 Aug 2008 by Bogdan Tiganov

5.0 out of 5 stars A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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Published on 4 Sep 2006 by Salman Beadle

4.0 out of 5 stars Style over substance.

This book to me, and Chris Ware on the whole, sometimes feels a bit like he's more interested in re-inventing the form of comics than telling a story. Read more

Published on 9 Feb 2005 by A. Robertson

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting. And very funny.

Don't listen to those people who have badmouthed Jimmy Corrigan. Their criticisms are, to be honest, infantile at best. Read more

Published on 14 Sep 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars If you never read another graphic novel...

The term “graphic novel” is one that is thrown around much too frequently. I would argue that most are just lengthy comics. Read more

Published on 12 Feb 2004 by TJ Ripp

5.0 out of 5 stars Boring

At the first glance I liked the drawings en graphic design. When I started reading I got very bored by the tale and sometimes by the hardly understandable links to story and... Read more

Published on 28 Aug 2003 by Laurens Reitsma

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Graphic Novel

A bizarre, unique and incredibly good graphic novel. I read it on a random book-buying spree, and think it is one of the best things I've read for many a year. Read more

Published on 14 July 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe the hype...

For some reason this book won the Guardian's first novel award. I can only think the person bestowing this award has never read a well written comic in their life and somehow... Read more

Published on 4 July 2003 by Nessy76

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