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Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth: Acme Novelty Library Issue Six (Acme Novelty Library, Six) Comic – January 1, 1995

by Chris Ware (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
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Comic book/soft cover. Cover says Fall 1995.
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    Fantagraphics
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    January 1, 1995
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000GHK1ZQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fantagraphics (January 1, 1995)
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings

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Chris Ware

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Chris Ware is the author of "Jimmy Corrigan — the Smartest Kid on Earth" and "Building Stories," which was chosen as a Top Ten Fiction Book by both The New York Times and Time Magazine in 2012. A regular contributor of graphic fiction and over thirty covers to The New Yorker, his work has been exhibited at the MoCa Los Angeles, the MCA Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as in regular exhibitions at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York and Galerie Martel in Paris. The PBS program "Art in the 21st Century" featured his work in their 2016 season, an eponymous monograph of his work was released by Rizzoli in 2017 and "Rusty Brown Part I" was published in late 2019 and selected as one the Best 100 Books of the Year by the New York Times. A solo retrospective of his work was presented at the Centre Pompidou in 2022, the Cartoonmuseum in Basel, Switzerland in 2023, the International Museum of Comic Art in Pordenone, Italy in 2024 and will continue to appear in Europe through 2025. The third and final facsimile volume of his unjustifiable, indefensible and fortunately recyclable sketchbooks will be published in October, 2024.

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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131 global ratings
Amazing comic, but my copy was damaged.
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Amazing comic, but my copy was damaged.
First off, I love this comic. Its one of my favorite pieces of art ever.My review is only for the copy of the Hardcover I purchased.I bought a brand new copy of the hardcover of this book. It took awhile to arrive, and when it did it had noticable damage to it. If I bought it used for 20 bucks I wouldn't mind. But I spent over 40 dollars on a brand new copy. That ended up not being brand new.So yeah I'm not happy.
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Ruofan Ma
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2016
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Good quality!
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Jesse Force
1.0 out of 5 stars Amazing comic, but my copy was damaged.
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2022
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First off, I love this comic. Its one of my favorite pieces of art ever.
My review is only for the copy of the Hardcover I purchased.

I bought a brand new copy of the hardcover of this book. It took awhile to arrive, and when it did it had noticable damage to it. If I bought it used for 20 bucks I wouldn't mind. But I spent over 40 dollars on a brand new copy. That ended up not being brand new.
So yeah I'm not happy.
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Jesse Force
1.0 out of 5 stars Amazing comic, but my copy was damaged.
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2022
First off, I love this comic. Its one of my favorite pieces of art ever.
My review is only for the copy of the Hardcover I purchased.

I bought a brand new copy of the hardcover of this book. It took awhile to arrive, and when it did it had noticable damage to it. If I bought it used for 20 bucks I wouldn't mind. But I spent over 40 dollars on a brand new copy. That ended up not being brand new.
So yeah I'm not happy.
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Waku Waku
1.0 out of 5 stars Surprised by obscenities and violence
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2020
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No way to know this until you start reading it. Visually appealing but not for me.
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BIENVE
5.0 out of 5 stars Recomendable
Reviewed in Spain on October 30, 2023
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Bien estructurado.
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Tom!
5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece.
Reviewed in Italy on May 11, 2022
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Does a postmodern comicbook exist? Yes, and it is this one.
An incredible story, a never ending experiment. A flux of emotions and good writing.
For the ones who loved tihs book, you MUST read Rust Brown too: a step further into perfection.
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Damien Charlois
5.0 out of 5 stars Un très beau livre
Reviewed in France on December 9, 2013
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Bien arrivé et bien emballé.

Très beau livre présentant une trame narrative forte avec un traité graphique à la fois précis et pléthorique mais sans superflu.
Un bel exemple de ce que la bande-dessinée est capable aujourd'hui d'apporter à son monde.

Pour les amoureux de beaux ouvrages.
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Oskar
5.0 out of 5 stars Bildsprache
Reviewed in Germany on May 6, 2013
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Wer einiges über Bildsprache lernen möchte sollte zu diesem gebundenen Buch greifen, egal auf welchem Gebiet man tätig ist. Oder ob man mit Fotoserieen oder Zeichnungen arbeitet. Die ganze lange Geschichte war für mich nicht ausschlaggebend, sondern die "visual language".
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John Self
5.0 out of 5 stars Picture Perfect
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2001
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Readers of The Guardian will be sick of hearing about this book by now, but for the uninitiated, this book by Chris Ware has just become the first graphic novel ever to win a literary prize in the UK. For those of you to whom the dread words "graphic novel" summon forth images of new "limited" edition Superman specials or - even worse - Neil Gaiman's tiresome po-faced mythologising, fear not. I fancy, in fact, that the very self-effacing Chris Ware would demur at the use of the term, and prefer "strip cartoon," because that's how Jimmy Corrigan started out - as a weekly page in a local paper which was intended to run for three months and, in the way of these things, went on for six years. I guess, to quote J.R.R. Tolkein - for the first and only time in my life, promise - on his own pictureless graphic novel The Lord of the Rings, the tale grew in the telling.
The tale itself is fairly minimal in plot. Jimmy, a middle-aged lonely man whose only phone calls come from his mother - and whom, in turn, he ferociously resents - fantasises mildly about a superhero life as The Smartest Kid on Earth. His father, whom he has never met, writes to him out of the blue one day and suggests they meet up. And, er, that's it. They meet, while in parallel run the tales of Jimmy's father and grandfather, and their relationships with their fathers. The violent and unpredictable great-Corrigan is a horror to behold. Jimmy's own father is, much to Jimmy's surprise, a nice man, like himself.
The beauty of Jimmy Corrigan then is not in the plot but in the absolutely perfect and seamless conjunction of media - the words and drawings work so well together that the whole thing really looks as though it sprang from the womb fully-formed; and if there is evidence for Ware's apparent shame at the supposedly amateurish half-baked nature of the early strips, it doesn't show up on the page. One sequence among many hundreds sticks in the mind: an horrific dream scene where Jimmy (or is it his grandfather?) imagines his baby son being blown to pieces and runs around trying to save him as the child cries piteously to him, reminiscent somehow of the pivotal scene in Catch-22 where Snowden's "I'm cold. I'm cold" unfolds its full horror. The layout of frames and the precisely judged pauses between the frames actually make this scene, and the entire book, impossible to read badly. And the artwork throughout is as meticulous and dry as Jimmy Corrigan himself, and the attention to detail utterly breathtaking.
For the prurient, the book even provides sustenance for art-and-life theorists. Chris Ware himself never met his father until one day - while, so the story goes, he was working on Jimmy Corrigan - he wrote to him and suggested they meet up... How much further art imitates life would be churlish to guess, but I will say this: physically, Chris Ware? Jimmy Corrigan? Tefal-heads to a man.
As well as all that, Jimmy Corrigan is a beautiful artefact, brilliantly put together with a detailed fold-out cover and lots of pointless but tempting cut-out zeotropes and farmyard scenes. The hardback is £18 but worth every penny. Get it on your wish list now and have a happy Christmas thanking god you're not Jimmy Corrigan.
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