Jimmy Corrigan: A Story of Growing Up and Finding Yourself

Huw Richards: Can be difficult to read - the print is sometimes super small.
Otherwise a great addition to my graphic novel collection. Great illustration and characters which pull you in to the story.

United Kingdom on Dec 24, 2023

Riley Smith: This book is not for the faint of heart. Chris Ware is my teacher's favorite comics artists. He does some crazy crazy stuff, and this might be the crowning achievement. I did not finish this, but like hell I'm ever returning it. I hope that one day I might be able to get through this, if not for me, then for Tammy.

United States on Jul 25, 2023

Ankit Ghosh: A beautiful feel good story

India on Dec 03, 2022

Hocking Yorick: Devant les commentaires dithyrambiques, j’ai décidé de le lire en anglais. Après un échec au bout des 10 premières pages, j’ai essayé de m’y remettre six mois après. J’ai vraiment insisté. Et devant mon incompréhension sur l’intérêt de ce personnage (pas si profond que cela) et sans réelle histoire trépidante, j’ai commencé à me poser des questions sur le pourquoi de mon ennui. Heureusement pour moi, j’ai pu voir que je n’étais pas le seul à apprécier très modérément cette œuvre. À mon sens, loin très loin de l’intérêt et de la profondeur des œuvres comme Maus a qui pourtant elle est comparée.

France on Jul 15, 2021

Guillermo Camacho: Una novela gráfica apasionante, una lección de paternidad dolorosa y hermosa a partes iguales. Ware demuestra su maestría y entrega una novela gráfica que destaca por su estética y la construcción de la obra.
Se necesita un gran dominio del inglés para entenderla, pues el autor tiene un vocabulario muy amplio. Aún así, vale la pena hacer el esfuerzo para leer una historia única.
La edición es buena, pero las tapas son de cartulina y hay que tener cuidado para que no se doblen.

Mexico on Sep 25, 2020

Briefträger Otto: Manche Freunde der frühmodernen Literatur mögen sich fragen, wo heute die Kreativität großer Erzähler geblieben ist und was nach Autoren wie Joyce, Woolf, Musil, Proust, Kafka blieb. Wo findet die Sprache noch neue Wege, schlägt sie Schneisen in Zonen halbbewußten Lebens? In der Literatur kaum, im Film auch weniger, als noch vor einigen Jahrzehnten. Eher dann in körperbetonten Formen wie dem Tanz. Wer aber im Buchmedium nach einer inspirierenden Quelle von tiefgehenden Erzählformen sucht, scheint mir mit Chris Wares "Jimmy Corrigan" bestens bedient. Dieses Werk ist an erzähltechnischer Kreativität kaum zu überschätzen. Es ist im Comic beheimatet, also einem populären Medium, schließt jedoch thematisch, formal und emotional anspruchsvollere Traditionen an.
Es ist die Geschichte eines aufgrund einer nie gewesenen Kindheit ebenso zurückgebliebenen wie früh-alten Menschen, in dem frühe Kindheit und Greisenhaftigkeit ohne die Blüten des Lebens unmittelbar ineinander übergehen, Geschichte von einer sich durch die Generationen fortzeugenden Leblosigkeit, einem Verharren in unerfüllten Träumen bis zum Altern - das Thema ist traurig, die Verarbeitung wunderschön...

Germany on Oct 16, 2011

paul ramone: I was not at all well versed in the "graphic novel" until recently when I read Batman the Dark Knight Returns. I enjoyed it enough to where I decided to seek out all different kinds of comics over the past six months or so.
Which brings me up to Jimmy Corrigan...
It's gotten plenty of positive press and it was even one of the books that Amazon recommended after I searched for graphic novels through the web site.
Since I'm not exactly well to do, I obtained a battered copy from my local public library about two weeks ago. The first time I read it, I had gotten about half-way through and I was a little confused and underwhelmed. But something about the art-work and the characters kept me going until I found myself studying the family tree of Ware's fictional characters for at least half an hour!
Next, I did something that I haven't done before. I immediately re-read the entire book; only this time much more S-L-O-W-L-Y.
Now I am buying a copy from Amazon. Even though I just read it twice!
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United States on Feb 06, 2006

Fantail Entertainment: If ever there was a title in the comics medium that could attract the attention of the literary world, "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth" would be it. Indeed, this meticulously crafted tale of estranged fathers and sons spanning three generations has already won much acclaim from reviewers and readers alike who, until now, would typically have never even considered picking up a work of graphic literature. Originally running in serial form in the Chicago's weekly publication New City, "Jimmy Corrigan" took Ware seven years to create, though just by reading it you would never be able to tell. The artwork maintains a consistency throughout that suggests a vigorous discipline on Ware's part to create a cohesive and uniform story. Although it's true that Ware started the work as a free-form narrative experiment-never fully aware of where the story was headed from one "episode" to the next-eventually, as the tale began to take shape, he was able to rein in all the loose themes and motifs and successfully weave them together into a unified whole.
The story opens depicting the title character, Jimmy Corrigan, as a young child living with his mother and already showing signs of...

United States on Mar 10, 2002