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Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth / Chris Ware.

By: Ware, Chris, 1967- [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: [380] pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 17 x 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0224063979 (paperback).Subject(s): Comic books, strips, etc | Graphic novels | Fathers and sons -- Fiction | Dysfunctional families -- FictionDDC classification: 741.5 WAR Summary: "The tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child" - publisher's website.
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General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 741.5 WAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00065913
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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**

"The tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child" - publisher's website.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Chris Ware lives in Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois. His books include Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth , which won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, Building Stories and most recently Monograph, which is part memoir, part retrospective of his career to date. He has won countless awards for his work and has been the subject of several museum exhibitions and scholarly monographs. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker .