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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth Hardcover – Import, June 14, 2001
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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.
- Print length380 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication dateJune 14, 2001
- Dimensions6.77 x 1.57 x 8.46 inches
- ISBN-100224062107
- ISBN-13978-0224062107
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- Publisher : Jonathan Cape; 1st edition (June 14, 2001)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 380 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0224062107
- ISBN-13 : 978-0224062107
- Item Weight : 2.5 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.77 x 1.57 x 8.46 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,930,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,630 in Literary Graphic Novels (Books)
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About the author
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 thirty 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 and selected as one the Best 100 Books of the Year by the New York Times. A solo retrospective of his work was presented at the Centre Pompidou in 2022, the Cartoonmuseum in Basel, Switzerland in 2023, the International Museum of Comic Art in Pordenone, Italy in 2024 and will continue to appear in Europe through 2025. The third and final facsimile volume of his unjustifiable, indefensible and fortunately recyclable sketchbooks will be published in October, 2024.
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My review is only for the copy of the Hardcover I purchased.
I bought a brand new copy of the hardcover of this book. It took awhile to arrive, and when it did it had noticable damage to it. If I bought it used for 20 bucks I wouldn't mind. But I spent over 40 dollars on a brand new copy. That ended up not being brand new.
So yeah I'm not happy.
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2022
My review is only for the copy of the Hardcover I purchased.
I bought a brand new copy of the hardcover of this book. It took awhile to arrive, and when it did it had noticable damage to it. If I bought it used for 20 bucks I wouldn't mind. But I spent over 40 dollars on a brand new copy. That ended up not being brand new.
So yeah I'm not happy.
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An incredible story, a never ending experiment. A flux of emotions and good writing.
For the ones who loved tihs book, you MUST read Rust Brown too: a step further into perfection.
Très beau livre présentant une trame narrative forte avec un traité graphique à la fois précis et pléthorique mais sans superflu.
Un bel exemple de ce que la bande-dessinée est capable aujourd'hui d'apporter à son monde.
Pour les amoureux de beaux ouvrages.
The tale itself is fairly minimal in plot. Jimmy, a middle-aged lonely man whose only phone calls come from his mother - and whom, in turn, he ferociously resents - fantasises mildly about a superhero life as The Smartest Kid on Earth. His father, whom he has never met, writes to him out of the blue one day and suggests they meet up. And, er, that's it. They meet, while in parallel run the tales of Jimmy's father and grandfather, and their relationships with their fathers. The violent and unpredictable great-Corrigan is a horror to behold. Jimmy's own father is, much to Jimmy's surprise, a nice man, like himself.
The beauty of Jimmy Corrigan then is not in the plot but in the absolutely perfect and seamless conjunction of media - the words and drawings work so well together that the whole thing really looks as though it sprang from the womb fully-formed; and if there is evidence for Ware's apparent shame at the supposedly amateurish half-baked nature of the early strips, it doesn't show up on the page. One sequence among many hundreds sticks in the mind: an horrific dream scene where Jimmy (or is it his grandfather?) imagines his baby son being blown to pieces and runs around trying to save him as the child cries piteously to him, reminiscent somehow of the pivotal scene in Catch-22 where Snowden's "I'm cold. I'm cold" unfolds its full horror. The layout of frames and the precisely judged pauses between the frames actually make this scene, and the entire book, impossible to read badly. And the artwork throughout is as meticulous and dry as Jimmy Corrigan himself, and the attention to detail utterly breathtaking.
For the prurient, the book even provides sustenance for art-and-life theorists. Chris Ware himself never met his father until one day - while, so the story goes, he was working on Jimmy Corrigan - he wrote to him and suggested they meet up... How much further art imitates life would be churlish to guess, but I will say this: physically, Chris Ware? Jimmy Corrigan? Tefal-heads to a man.
As well as all that, Jimmy Corrigan is a beautiful artefact, brilliantly put together with a detailed fold-out cover and lots of pointless but tempting cut-out zeotropes and farmyard scenes. The hardback is £18 but worth every penny. Get it on your wish list now and have a happy Christmas thanking god you're not Jimmy Corrigan.