Jimmy Corriagan features in an article entitled "50 Essential Graphic Novels", which was published on AbeBooks on the 7th of November 2013 and was chosen as No. Please note that due to size and weight we will have to charge additional postage for these items.
These items from our Catalogue 14: Graphic Novels & Comics, which you can download at ygrbooks.ch. A fine copy still sealed in its original shrink-wrap. (Everything You Need To Erect Your Own) Multi-Story Building. Signed by Chris Ware inside the outline of a book on the pastedown of the small hardcover book with the gold foil spine (looks like a Little Golden Book). Fine copies of the 14 books, booklets, pamphlets and ephemera in a fine box. With the full number line on the inside of the box. Together with an original photograph of Chris Ware and Lynda Barry (from Printer's Row Book Fair) in Chicago in 2000. Ware 2000 A.D." All of this is in silver sharpie. The verso of the front free endpaper was beautifully hand lettered "To Larry" by Chris Ware and in a word balloon he added "My Thanks For Your Support". Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth. It is thrilling, moving, profoundly sympathetic - and it is the most beautiful-looking book of the year.Hardcover. Some will find Jimmy Corrigan slow and depressing they will be wrong. Popular Culture - Something Chris Ware, a cartoonist still in his 30s, has little use for - would dismiss Jimmy Corrigan (lumpy, lazy, lonely, easily confused) as a ”loser.” Ostensibly the story of Jimmy trying to make contact with the father who abandoned him years before, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth shifts back and forth in time, showing how generations of Corrigans’ selfish, stunted behavior has affected Jimmy, whose only happiness occurs in his dreams, where he’s ”the smartest kid on earth.” In Ware’s 380-page graphic novella, studded with small, precise panels that regularly expand to reveal stunning draftsmanship, Jimmy’s inability to interact with the world makes for a humorous tragedy more worthy of comparison to Ivan Goncharov’s novel Oblomov (about a man who cannot find a reason to get out of bed: the 19th-century Jimmy) than to anything in the comics genre.
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