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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware
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Description for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Paperback. Presents an autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. Illustrator(s): Ware, Chris. Num Pages: 380 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 203 x 31. Weight in Grams: 830.
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**
Product Details
Publisher
Jonathan Cape UK
Number of pages
380
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224063975
SKU
V9780224063975
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Ref
99-98
About Chris Ware
Chris Ware lives in Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois. His books include Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, which won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, Building Stories and most recently Monograph, which is part memoir, part retrospective of his career to date. He has won countless awards for his work and has been the subject of several museum exhibitions and scholarly monographs. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker.
Reviews for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
A mesmerising and heartbreaking tale of a heavily burdened and desperately unhappy individual, and the lasting influence of toxic family ties.
Evening Standard
A bona fide masterpiece.
Strong Words
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
Jimmy Corrigan is a dazzlingly handsome book with every detail lovingly attended to. The book is demanding, disturbing, funny and exciting. Oh yes, and essential
Time Out
A work of genius
Zadie Smith
Evening Standard
A bona fide masterpiece.
Strong Words
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
Jimmy Corrigan is a dazzlingly handsome book with every detail lovingly attended to. The book is demanding, disturbing, funny and exciting. Oh yes, and essential
Time Out
A work of genius
Zadie Smith