Chris Ware: Jimmy Corrigan - The Smartest Kid on Earth, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Short description

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. 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.

Blurb

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.