Pantheon Graphic Library Jimmy Corrigan: Or, the Smartest Kid on Earth, (Hardcover)

from Arkholt

I highly enjoyed it. Yes, it is bleak and sad, but only because it makes one reflect on certain things in one's life, and the relationships one has with one's family and friends. The art is great, ...

from sproutchild

Never liked comic books and haven't read Sunday comics in years. Discovered this in the NYTimes magazine section and throught I'd see what the fuss was about. Was blown away by the depth of emotion...

from stephmo

On the surface, Jimmy Corrigan can easily be dismissed as a simple story. Then the details and the sheer cleverness of it all begins to emerge. Jimmy Corrigan does his best to be someone we don't w...

from rrriles

If you stumbled into the graphic novel genre because of Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) or Art Spiegelman (Maus), you owe it to yourself to check out Chris Ware's magnum opus.Also required reading for...

from Knicke

I'm familiar with other stuff from Ware, but had never read this. Since The New Yorker called it "the first formal masterpiece of the medium" (man, is The New Yorker ever pretentious sometimes), an...