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Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest 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 the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, Jimmy Corrigan is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed.


**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN''S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**



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A bona fide masterpiece. * Strong Words *
A mesmerising and heartbreaking tale of a heavily burdened and desperately unhappy individual, and the lasting influence of toxic family ties. * Evening Standard *
Jimmy Corrigan is certainly the greatest thing in strip cartoons since Krazy Kat and Little Nemo -- Raymond Briggs
Ware is the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has known - arguably the greatest achievement of the form ever -- Dave Eggers * New York Times Book Review *
This new book seems to be another milestone in the demonstration of what comics can be -- Art Spiegelman, author of Maus

Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth

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    A Paperback / softback by Chris Ware

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      Publisher Vintage Publishing
      Published 22 May 2003
      ISBN-13 9780224063975
      978-0224063975
      ISBN-10 0224063979
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      Fiction Graphic Novels & Manga

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest 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 the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, Jimmy Corrigan is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed.


      **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN''S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**



      Trade Review
      A bona fide masterpiece. * Strong Words *
      A mesmerising and heartbreaking tale of a heavily burdened and desperately unhappy individual, and the lasting influence of toxic family ties. * Evening Standard *
      Jimmy Corrigan is certainly the greatest thing in strip cartoons since Krazy Kat and Little Nemo -- Raymond Briggs
      Ware is the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has known - arguably the greatest achievement of the form ever -- Dave Eggers * New York Times Book Review *
      This new book seems to be another milestone in the demonstration of what comics can be -- Art Spiegelman, author of Maus

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