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Jimmy Corrigan est un homme très timide et très seul, étouffé par une mère omniprésente. Jimmy a un travail de bureau sans intérêt, et vit davantage dans ses fantasmes que dans la triste réalité qui l'entoure. Un beau jour, il reçoit un courrier totalement inattendu : une lettre du père qu'il n'a jamais connu. Ce père qui les a abandonnés, lui et sa mère, et qui lui propose de venir le voir pour la première fois. Jimmy, naturellement bouleversé et terrifié, part à la rencontre de cet inconnu...Ce livre, que le New York Times considère comme 'probablement la bande dessinée la plus accomplie de tous les temps', et qui a connu un immense succès public et critique aux états-Unis, est à la hauteur de sa réputation.Il a reçu en 2001 le prestigieux prix du Meilleur premier roman du Guardian, le journal britannique qui récompensait pour la première fois une bande dessinée.Le livre impressionnera d'emblée par sa présentation exceptionnelle, avec son format à l'italienne, sa jaquette dépliable géante, son temps de lecture hors norme pour une bande dessinée, et la précision chirurgicale du graphisme.Un soin extrême a été apporté à l'édition française, réalisée (sur une période d'un an !) sous le contrôle de l'auteur.Un événement éditorial qui sera largement relayé par la presse spécialisée, littéraire et généraliste.
380 pages, Paperback
First published September 12,2000
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380 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 2004 by DELCOURT
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9782840558057
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284055805X
- Language
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French
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Jimmy Corrigan
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About the author
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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.
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God help me, but I'm addicted to lists. So when I saw a goodreads friend had a shelf of 'Guardian 1000' top novels, I had to know what it was. So far I've been able to resist the temptation to make my own shelf at goodreads to keep track of it, but I did download the list from the Guardian website and import it into a spreadsheet. The list doesn't quite ping my O/C tracking instinct enough, though, because among the books I noticed a misspelled author's name, an entry for the 'book' "The Chronicles of Narnia," and even worse, an entry for the 'book' by Terry Pratchett "The Discworld Series."
Guardian, please.
If your compartmentalization is that sloppy, you don't deserve my O/C efforts. You gotta give if you wanna get back.
Anyway, the list reminded me that I read this book, and loved it, and what the heck, I'll say it's a novel. Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan comics in an alternate Chicago paper actually inspired me to create a webcomic for a while. So I guess it's fair to say Jimmy Corrigan affected me quite a bit.
Without getting overly analytical, and losing the forest for the trees, I want to point out that having Jimmy Corrigan be the only character to have facial features was profoundly effective. This book captures that feeling of modern disconnection from other humans like no other book I've ever read. It's a beautiful sad feeling.
Guardian, please.
If your compartmentalization is that sloppy, you don't deserve my O/C efforts. You gotta give if you wanna get back.
Anyway, the list reminded me that I read this book, and loved it, and what the heck, I'll say it's a novel. Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan comics in an alternate Chicago paper actually inspired me to create a webcomic for a while. So I guess it's fair to say Jimmy Corrigan affected me quite a bit.
Without getting overly analytical, and losing the forest for the trees, I want to point out that having Jimmy Corrigan be the only character to have facial features was profoundly effective. This book captures that feeling of modern disconnection from other humans like no other book I've ever read. It's a beautiful sad feeling.
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This book lives up to its billing as the best graphic novel ever to be published. I can’t believe I haven’t come across it until now (it was published in 2003), but the wait allowed time for the book to be published in paperback, which I much prefer to hardback. It’s a brick of a work (380 pages) with an incredible amount of drawings on each page. The style of drawing is relatively simplistic, but what Chris Ware manages to communicate through his simple art is incredible. I found myself in awe of what he managed to “say” through a series of pictures that only differ slightly from one another. A gusty night…snow slowly piling up on a telegraph line…brilliant.
The story of Jimmy Corrigan is a sad one. I don’t think I saw Jimmy smile once. But he has had little to smile about in his life, having lived with an abusive, and then absent, father. As an adult, Jimmy receives a letter from his father, requesting a meeting and this is the point where the book takes off. Most of the book is flash-backs to his lonely childhood and the treatment he received from his father and other children.
Any fan of graphic novels, or anyone who has ever thought of trying a graphic novel, could not go wrong with this one. Don’t expect it to be an easy read, though. Each page is different from the one before and the reader has to navigate each page in unique fashion. Brilliant…or did I already say that?
This book lives up to its billing as the best graphic novel ever to be published. I can’t believe I haven’t come across it until now (it was published in 2003), but the wait allowed time for the book to be published in paperback, which I much prefer to hardback. It’s a brick of a work (380 pages) with an incredible amount of drawings on each page. The style of drawing is relatively simplistic, but what Chris Ware manages to communicate through his simple art is incredible. I found myself in awe of what he managed to “say” through a series of pictures that only differ slightly from one another. A gusty night…snow slowly piling up on a telegraph line…brilliant.
The story of Jimmy Corrigan is a sad one. I don’t think I saw Jimmy smile once. But he has had little to smile about in his life, having lived with an abusive, and then absent, father. As an adult, Jimmy receives a letter from his father, requesting a meeting and this is the point where the book takes off. Most of the book is flash-backs to his lonely childhood and the treatment he received from his father and other children.
Any fan of graphic novels, or anyone who has ever thought of trying a graphic novel, could not go wrong with this one. Don’t expect it to be an easy read, though. Each page is different from the one before and the reader has to navigate each page in unique fashion. Brilliant…or did I already say that?
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I disegni volutamente semplici di questa graphic novel, con quel tratto pulito tipico delle bande dessinée francesi, fanno da controaltare ad una storia che semplice non lo è affatto.
I temi toccati in queste quasi 400 pagine di narrazione densa e non convenzionale sono infatti tra i più disparati:
L'infanzia, la solitudine, il bullismo, il sentirsi inadeguati, il rapporto con i genitori, il lutto, la povertà, la diffidenza, il destino, le catene dell'abitudine, lo squallore, l'indifferenza, la vecchiaia, la tristezza, rari attimi di felicità, la paura, la rassegnazione, la speranza.
Il tutto condito da salti temporali, cambi di punti di vista, film mentali, metanarrazione...
Insomma, non proprio una lettura leggera!
Per molti addetti ai lavori questo è il miglior fumetto di tutti i tempi.
Per me invece questa è senza dubbio una pietra miliare del fumetto mondiale che però non è riuscita a rispondere totalmente alle mie enormi aspettative.
Non me la sento di consigliarla a chi è alle prime armi in questo campo.
I temi toccati in queste quasi 400 pagine di narrazione densa e non convenzionale sono infatti tra i più disparati:
L'infanzia, la solitudine, il bullismo, il sentirsi inadeguati, il rapporto con i genitori, il lutto, la povertà, la diffidenza, il destino, le catene dell'abitudine, lo squallore, l'indifferenza, la vecchiaia, la tristezza, rari attimi di felicità, la paura, la rassegnazione, la speranza.
Il tutto condito da salti temporali, cambi di punti di vista, film mentali, metanarrazione...
Insomma, non proprio una lettura leggera!
Per molti addetti ai lavori questo è il miglior fumetto di tutti i tempi.
Per me invece questa è senza dubbio una pietra miliare del fumetto mondiale che però non è riuscita a rispondere totalmente alle mie enormi aspettative.
Non me la sento di consigliarla a chi è alle prime armi in questo campo.
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Pensé que me iba a gustar más, fue un poco meh.
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I'm surprised that GoodReads doesn't allow a sixth star for this book alone. I can not say enough great things about Jimmy Corrigan. Honestly, it changed my life, and I can't imagine anyone not being in awe of its mathematics, literally and figuratively. This book is like the Catcher in the Rye for graphic novels. It raised the bar and it will not be matched for a very long time. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Breathtaking and deep. Brilliant.
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2011 - 4*⭐
2020 [Releitura] - 5*⭐
2020 [Releitura] - 5*⭐
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Great art/technique, but this is wrist-slitting reading at best.
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