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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2003)

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2003)

Chris Ware

Published: 2003, April 29
Authors: Chris Ware
Publishers: Pantheon
Pages: 400
Print type: BOOK

Description:

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.