A lengthy, meandering experiment in reader tolerance, this first book from Chicago author Chris Ware garnered him the prestigious Guardian Award in the UK. This book is a pleasantly-decorated look at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth) who is given the opportunity, in his mid-thirties, to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly ignores all sense of plot and drama, the reader is unaccountably transported between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a startling illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and brief notes (including, of course, an official apology from the author), all of which promise to concrete one of the most unusual and easily-dismissed books of the new millennium. "Jimmy Corrigan is thrilling, moving, profoundly sympathetic — and it is the most beautiful-looking book of the year." – Entertainment Weekly
"This haunting and unshakable book will change the way you look at your world." – Time magazine
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