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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth: Or, the Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon Graphic Library) Hardcover – 12 Sept. 2000

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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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380 pages
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English
Publisher

Fantagraphics
Publication date

12 Sept. 2000
Dimensions

21.41 x 3.91 x 17.25 cm
ISBN-10

0375404538
ISBN-13

978-0375404535
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"This haunting and unshakable book will change the way you look at your world. Ware captures landscapes made to flatten emotion--a clinic shrouded in snow, a sterile apartment complex--and yet shows the reader the meaning and even beauty in every glimpse from a highway, every snippet of small talk." --Time magazine

"Jimmy Corrigan pushes the form of comics into unexpected formal and emotional territory." --Chicago Tribune

"Graphically inventive, wonderfully realized . . . [Jimmy Corrigan] is wonderfully illustrated in full color, and Ware's spare, iconic drawing style can render vivid architectural complexity or movingly capture the stark despondency of an unloved child." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Ware's use of words is sparing, and at times maudlin. But the real joy is his art. It's stunning. In terms of attention to detail, graceful use of color, and overall design--Ware has no peer. And while each panel is relentlessly polished--never an errant line or lazily rendered image--his drawings, somehow, remain delicate and achingly lyrical." --Dave Eggers, The New York Times Book Review

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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fantagraphics; 1st edition (12 Sept. 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 380 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0375404538
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0375404535
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.41 x 3.91 x 17.25 cm

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Chris Ware is the author of "Jimmy Corrigan — the Smartest Kid on Earth" and "Building Stories," which was chosen as a Top Ten Fiction Book by both The New York Times and Time Magazine in 2012. A regular contributor of graphic fiction and over two dozen covers to The New Yorker, his work has been exhibited at the MoCa Los Angeles, the MCA Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as in regular exhibitions at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York and Galerie Martel in Paris. The PBS program "Art in the 21st Century" featured his work in their 2016 season, an eponymous monograph of his work was released by Rizzoli in 2017 and "Rusty Brown Part I" was published in late 2019.

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Daniela

Great book, tiny characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 9 August 2022

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I have the same book in my native language, and I decided to buy it to introduce my partner to graphic novels. Well, we need a loop to read it!
However, the novel itself is a work of art and a classic in its genre.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 30 January 2023

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Absolutely fantastic graphic novel. Funny , sad and very moving.

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Simon Turner

The greatest ever graphic novel?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 August 2016

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This is a truly magnificent piece of work, a masterpiece of the medium to rank alongside Maus by Speigelman. Only the title is weak!

A study of alienation and lives shut down in childhood and for good. The format that the story takes is brilliant, fascinating and meaningful too.

This will be underrated by people who like to read comics that stay on the surface or those that only romanticise hard times or are by authors who don't have the perceptiveness to truly illuminate a comics` situations. Ware isn't exploitative though and doesn't delve into tough times in a cynical way. This comic will be marked down though far more than other inferior ones because it isn't superficial: great art pushes boundaries and by its very nature can rarely then be popular. Everyone who would rather stay where things are familiar and safe will be left behind and some of them write reviews on Amazon to justify themselves!

Especially great are the parts of the book that focus on events of more than 100 years ago. The first 300 pages of the book are wonderful after the first 10 or 20 to settle into Chris Ware`s style and his character`s fantasy life excerpts, which are also completely justified in the circumstances of the character`s life unlike how they are used in many other books. The final hundred pages are very good too.

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Johan

Very special - go for HC though

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 January 2014

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I wandered around confused for lthe first 50 pages or so. Didn't get the robot, didn't get the sudden flashes in time. Then came an explanatory double page and from there on this was one of the saddest and most beautiful stories I've read. Chris Ware isn't afraid of using a whole page just showing the dripping of a faucet just to make explicit the awkward silence of a moment. Both original, daring and very successful in my opinion. Buy the HC edition though. The spine of my paperback was already loose after one readthrough, and I take care of my books.

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Excellent art work, but problems reading the tiny print...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 November 2017

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Excellent art work, intriguing story (if a bit complex to make sense of and get through first, but in the end it all a makes sense ... kind of), but the paperback format is a bit too small so that some of the writing (particularly the white handwriting on black background) is tiny and difficult to read.

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Jomarleen

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 June 2021

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bought it as a present

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J. M. Lilley

Depressing and over-hyped

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 October 2022

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A tedious and depressing novel, with a thin story-line that the author spins out forever. No doubt the original cartoon strip kept its readers hooked, waiting for something interesting to happen, but it never did. Most of the text is too small or has little contrast with its background, so will strain your eyes severely.

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Marco António Pereira Costa

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 November 2017

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I love it

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