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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. "A+" "In Ware's 380-page graphic novella, studded with small, precise panels that regularly expand to reveal stunning draftmanship, Jimmy's inability to interact with the world makes for a humorous tragedy worthy of comparison to Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomo, (about a man who cannot find a reason to get out of bed) . . . Jimmy Corrigan is thrilling, moving, profoundly sympathetic--and it is the most beautiful-looking book of the year."--Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly "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 start despondency of an unloved child." --Publishers Weekly
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