Jimmy Corrigan is, as the author describes it, an improvisatory
romance. A very odd yet distinctive entry into the comic world,
Jimmy Corrigan started life as a weekly comic strip in a Chicago
newspaper and was originally intended purely as an
semi-autobiographical setting in which to work out some of the
authors more embarrasing emotional problems. The problem with such
truth exercises, as Chris Ware now realizes, is that they are apt
to sprawl out and become a much larger and significant body of work
than was ever intended. Jimmy Corrigan is no exception. Everything
about this book is both surprising and delightful: the dust cover
folds out into an elaborate double-sided diagrammatical poster that
is part mind map and partly mind-boggling. The detail between the
covers is in turn awesome and inspiring. Not an inch of space is
wasted and metric measurements fair no better. Every available
piece of the page is beautifully and obsessively filled with what,
at first glance, appears to be an oversimplified cartoon style
that's sole object is to confuse, but on closer inspection reveals
itself to be much more rewarding, complex and, possibly,
disturbing. Panels are orientated at many varied and crazy angles,
forcing excited eyes to manoeuvre and bend around the page in ways
for which they probably weren't designed. The plot, for I am
determined that there is one, is as completely unexplainable as is
any one of our lives, but revolves around common themes such as
hope, neglectful parents, overbearing parents, love, life, death,
despair and dreams. A totally unique book. (Kirkus UK)
Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest comic/graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize. It is now available for the first time in paperback.
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