false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168481764m/34072.jpg 34072 10 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. 1315 1999 Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth total:2942|5:1524|4:936|3:334|2:113|1:35| 2942 12627 3723 390 5 1 false false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 08:06:46 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 08:17:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Sep 14 10:53:55 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 17:13:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Aug 29 20:20:19 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 20:01:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 08 00:37:13 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 00:43:44 -0700 2007 Blankets. It's a sad, shockingly complex graphic novel that toys with your expectations of the comic medium. Jimmy's a lonely middle-aged man who's in an unhealthily co-dependent relationship with his also-lonely mo...more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Nov 23 22:16:01 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 09:48:18 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Dec 01 08:46:58 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 08:48:07 -0800 2008 5 3 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Mar 23 07:46:57 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 23 07:52:54 -0700 2007 Jimmy Corrigan. Honestly, it changed my life, and I can't imagine anyone not being in awe of its mathematics, literally and figuratively. This book is like the Catcher in the Rye for ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Nov 10 10:24:51 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 10:24:51 -0800 2009
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I feel like the author is a very nice person who has been very lonely for many years and suffered alone, and who in his times of loneliness wrote and drew to console himself.]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 20 09:13:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 16:24:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=34072