Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth | Chris Ware | Read slowly, appreciate the art and...

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	Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth Chris Ware Pantheon, 2000 - 380 pages average customer review:based on 123 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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.

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Read slowly, appreciate the art and exquisite transitions

The technique in enjoying this book is in going through it slowly, appreciating the art, trying to digest each frame and pages. It's like a finearts thesis, you would appreciate how much time is put in to build the entire thing, how the total book is a labor of love.

The story could be soap opera, yes, but it is not told in such a way. There are themes in-between pages and transitions left unsaid that the reader has to discover himself/herself. And the drawings elicit empathy in the process.

Worth the price, also given the paper/book material.

Truly in the top10 of graphic novels. Along with WATCHMEN and DARK KNIGHT.

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spectacular

this book is one of the most amazing pieces of literature i have ever read. theres not much to say about this book that hasnt already been said. once again, a work of art.

Very, very good indeed

Almost perfect. Almost. In my opinion, it gets a bit too clean and ordinary towards the end and loses the denseness that makes three quarters of the book an absolute masterpiece.

But, to be fair, it's one of those books that should be placed near the very top in your bookcase. The sheer guts, imagination and vision behind this book is enough to make it the greatest comic book/graphic novel/pictorial book I've ever read. No match. Not even Watchmen. Don't spoil it for yourself. Just buy it and take your time when reading it. Absorb it. Savour it. You won't see/read anything in the same class for a while.

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Jimmy Corrigan: Lamest Man on Earth

As most people state, the artwork is very interesting, and the layout is innovative. Sometimes figuring out what panel to read next is half the battle. I definitely agree with the people who have no sympathy for the title character. I like Anton Chigurh more than I like Jimmy Corrigan, and Anton Chigurh is a heartless homicidal maniac who may or may not symbolize evil incarnate. But unlike the others, I don't hold this against the book or against the author. This book reminds me of the mumble-core movies popularized by Andrew Bujalski. It makes you want to shake the crap out of the characters, and tell them to wake the eff up. A book doesn't have to be judged on how likable its characters are. This book tells a story of a family who deserves to be forgotten, but who will instead be remembered.

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Hard to follow

Seems to operate on a parallel-universe multilinearity. I couldn't follow it at all. Also, the look of it requires an acquired taste. Perhaps that's not being fair, because I did end up liking the look of it. That all said, it does read like a novel, and manage to evoke pathos.

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