Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

chris ware

1893 This is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago. One day he meets the father who abandoned him as a child. The first graphic novel to win a major British literary award took the Guardian First Book Award 2001.

Genres graphic novelscomicsfictiongraphic novels comicscomixcomic bookbande dessinéeartamericansequential art

380 pages, Hardcover

First published September 12,2000

Literary awards

guardian first book award, american book award, harvey awards, prix du festival dangoulême, will eisner comic industry awards, grand prix de la critique,

Places

michigan, chicago illinois,

This edition

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 2006 by Public Square Books
ISBN: 9781594972072
ASIN: 1594972079
Language: English

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Jimmy Corrigan

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About the author

chris ware

Franklin Christenson ('Chris') Ware is a cartoonist. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by the London Times in 2009. An irregular contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker (where some of the pages of this book first appeared) his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park, Illinois.