Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - Softcover

Ware, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224063979 ISBN 13: 9780224063975

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2003

Synopsis

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**

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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0224063979
• ISBN 13: 9780224063975
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380