Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

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.

From the Hardcover edition.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 04/29/2003
ISBN: 9780375714542
Pages: 380
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 6.30h x 8.00w x 1.30d

Review Citations: New York Times 05/04/2003 pg. 28
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 66