About this title: For five years Chris Ware has been drawing amazingly innovative 'comic strips' about a character called Jimmy Corrigan - a boy with the face of a disappointed old man. Here for the first time Ware's strips are assembled in a beautiful hardback, every inch of which, including an extraordinary fold-out jacket, has been designed by Chris Ware. Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest comic/graphic novel ever to be published.
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Description: Fine. 0375714545 Binding is tight & square. Contents are crisp, clean, complete and undamaged. Book was donated to Friends of the Omaha Public Library. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN-13:9780375714542ISBN:0375714545
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780375714542. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375714542ISBN:0375714545
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780224062107ISBN:0224062107
Description: Good. EX-LIBRARY WITH USUAL LIBRARY MARKINGS. USUAL SIGNS OF A WELL READ BOOK BUT GOOD OVERALL CONDITION SECURE DAILY POSTING FROM UK. 30 DAY GUARANTEE. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780224063975ISBN:0224063979
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 384 pages. (384 pages) a comic/graphic novel that won the guardian first book award 2001. it is the first graphic novel to win a major british literary prize. colour illustrations edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Description: Good. No Jacket. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Re-bound by library. Spine-slant. Just try to find the bibliographic information in this book...it's fat, 1 1/4". read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375714542ISBN:0375714545
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Looks Very Good. Ships Fast. Carefuly packaged in bubblewrap. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 380 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Looks Very Good. Ships Fast. Carefuly packaged in bubblewrap. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pantheon, Seattle
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375714542ISBN:0375714545
Description: Ware, Chris. Good + No Jacket as Issued. Oblong 12mo. Oblong illustrated soft cover in muted tones, titles all over in different colors, minimal edgewear. book interior clean and tight, beautiful color comics throughout. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PANTHEON
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375714542ISBN:0375714545
Description: New. 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. read more
Description: New. DISPATCHED FROM UNITED KINGDOM. NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING! Please note orders are confirmed immediately and may take 2-3 business days to ship. This processing time is in addition to the shipping time. Please allow 10-14 days for delivery. Brand new item. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Order with confidence. Code: G20091109054915D. read more
"This is my third foray into the world of graphic novels. This book compels me to continue into this genre. Chris Ware tells a heart-rending story of loneliness, but what truly captured my admiration was the artwork. He does a sort of stylistic 180 from the narrative. While the story is intimate and emotional his images sort of stand back. He employs repeated frames of seemingly insignificant details, such as a bird moving along a tree branch. He emphasizes the alienation of the characters by focusing on the architecture, somewhat akin to the way John Ford uses long shots of mesas in Monument Vally in his westerns, or the way Ozu uses "pillow shots" in his movies. This makes the human drama stand out more when Ware does focus on the people. A small down-turned line on a face takes on greater significance as an emotional marker.
The one drawback is in the layout of the frames. I found it confusing at times. I had to think for a second, "which frame am I supposed to focus on next?" It interrupted the flow."
"I don't have much to add about Chris Ware's brilliant graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The smartest kid on Earth, that hasn't already been said. Yes, it is incredibly sad. The characters move like ghosts through the alienated landscape they inhabit, and their loneliness is palpable. When the title character, a doughy, middle-aged loner, stammers that he just wants people to like him, it hits home in ways that are almost disturbing. Some may be put off at first by the book's dense symbolism and intricate timeline, which shifts back and forth from the childhood of Jimmy's grandfather at the turn of the century, to the present, in which Jimmy is trying to re-connect with his own absentee father. As the above descripition suggests, Jimmy Corrigan is not light reading. Indeed, if it weren't for Ware's deft handling of the material and occasional touches of humor, the story would be almost unbearably bleak. Persistence is rewarding, though, as this proves to be an extremely moving story, one whose raw depiction of loneliness will haunt you long after you've read the final page.
"Stupendous! I really fell in love with this book. True, the main character can be frustrating at times--he's just so lonely and insecure you wanna scream--but there's something sweet about him, too, and when you understand his story, and his father's story, and even his father's father story, it makes a moving and brilliant read. I don't know how Ware managed to interconnect all three stories (the three generations) but it's perfectly done, well-paced, wonderfully drawn, and totally unique. I love the little dream sequences and the fantasies written in. That's the cool thing about this graphic novel--it really seems like you're reading a life, daydreams and nightmares included. Also, there's weird little asides in here, like cut-out diagrams and cartoons, and I found that fun and entertaining. Better than watching a movie. I'm certainly going to read all of Ware's books."
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