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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

$35.00

by Chris Ware

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.

Pantheon
ISBN: 9780375404535
SKU: JIMMYCORRIGAN Category: Tags: , , , , , , Product ID: 27450

Description

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.

380 page full color hardcover with color dustjacket
Pantheon, 2000

Additional information

Weight 35 oz
Dimensions 9 × 6 × 2 in
ISBN

978-0375404535