This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions,...

This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" ("Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth"), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an...

Presents an autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child.

Als Chris Ware die Graphic Novel JIMMY CORRIGAN zur Milleniumswende veröffentlichte, löste er damit weit über die Grenzen der Comicwelt hinaus Begeisterung aus. Seitdem gilt das Buch als Jahrhundertcomic, der die Ausdrucksmöglichkei ten von Bild und Wort radikal ausschöpft und damit beweist: Es gibt große Literatur, die sich nur als Comic erzählen lässt.Jimmy Corrigan ist ein linkischer und dauerkränkelnder Enddreißiger, der ein Dasein als unauffälliger Büroangestellter fristet. Sein soziales Leben beschränkt sich auf die täglichen Kontrollanrufe der Mutter und findet ansonsten...

The legendary Norwegian pop artist Pushwagner's scathing comics masterpiece--lost for decades, and never before published in the U.S.--is an epic vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and endless distant war. "CLEAN BOMB THE HAPPY-HAPPY WAY," blares the morning paper. "Heil Hilton " barks an overlord on the news.

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