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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth Book

A comic/graphic novel that won the Guardian First Book Award 2001. It is the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.Read More

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    Jimmy Corrigan - the creation of artist Chris Ware - is a man whose life is a non-stop trial of disappointment and low-grade despair. This graphic novel tells the poignant story of the shy Jimmy and his first meeting with his previously absent father. It was also the first graphic novel to be awarded a major British literary prize the Guardian First Book Award. Gorgeously illustrated with exceptional attention to detail and Ware's trademark flourishes - fold out make-it-yourself zoetropes cut-out toys lavish digressions and captivating fantasy sequences Jimmy Corrigan is an epic ambitious and heartbreaking book that perfectly captures the day to day life of one of life's "forgotten people".

  • Foyles

    '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 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. It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, Jimmy Corrigan is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed.

  • BookDepository

    Jimmy Corrigan : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780224063975 : 0224063979 : 01 May 2004 : With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, Jimmy Corrigan is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed. **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

  • Pickabook

    Chris Ware, Chris Ware (Illus)

  • 0224063979
  • 9780224063975
  • Chris Ware
  • 22 May 2003
  • Jonathan Cape
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 380
  • New Ed
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