A very odd yet distinctive entry into the comic world, Jimmy Corrigan started life as a weekly comic strip in a Chicago newspaper and was originally intended purely as an semi-autobiographical setting in which to work out some of the authors more embarrasing emotional problems. Jimmy Corrigan is, as the author describes it, an improvisatory romance.
* Strong Words * Jimmy Corrigan is certainly the greatest thing in strip cartoons since Krazy Kat and Little Nemo - Raymond Briggs Ware is the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has known - arguably the greatest achievement of the form ever - Dave Eggers * New York Times Book Review * This new book seems to be another milestone in the demonstration of what comics can be - Art Spiegelman, author of Maus Chris Ware has produced a book as beautiful as any published this year, but also one which challenges us to think again about what literature is and where it is going - Claire Armitstead * Guardian * It is thrilling, moving, profoundly sympathetic - and it is the most beautiful-looking book of the year.A bona fide masterpiece. 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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