Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth - Winner of The American Book Award and The Guardian Prize 2001

Jimmy Corrigan ist ein einsamer Mann in den 30ern, und Jimmy hat herzlich wenig Selbstvertrauen. In Rückblicken erzählt Ware, wie Jimmy der wurde, der er ist - schonungslos und unsentimental.

Kurzbeschreibung:

Jimmy Corrigan is a lonely man in his 30s with no self-confidence. A blunt and unsentimental account of how Jimmy came to be the man he is.

Klappentext:

The first and now critically-acclaimed book from Chicago artist Chris Ware. A lonely and emotionally impaired everyman, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, is provided with the opportunity to meet his father for the first time when he is 36 years old. The story, set in 1890s Chicago and 1980s small-town Michigan, is told in hundreds of small, precisely drawn panels that regularly expand to reveal stunning draughtsmanship, and supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cutouts and beautifully drawn period adverts.

Rezension:

"This haunting and unshakable book will change the way you look at your world. Ware captures landscapes made to flatten emotion-a clinic shrouded in snow, a sterile apartment complex-and yet shows the reader the meaning and even beauty in every glimpse from a highway, every snippet of small talk." -Time magazine

"Jimmy Corrigan pushes the form of comics into unexpected formal and emotional territory." -Chicago Tribune

"Graphically inventive, wonderfully realized . . . [Jimmy Corrigan] is wonderfully illustrated in full color, and Ware's spare, iconic drawing style can render vivid architectural complexity or movingly capture the stark despondency of an unloved child." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Ware's use of words is sparing, and at times maudlin. But the real joy is his art. It's stunning. In terms of attention to detail, graceful use of color, and overall design-Ware has no peer. And while each panel is relentlessly polished-never an errant line or lazily rendered image-his drawings, somehow, remain delicate and achingly lyrical." -Dave Eggers, The New York Times Book Review

From the Hardcover edition.