{"product_id":"jimmy-corrigan-the-smartest-kid-on-earth-chris-ware-paperback","title":"Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth -- Chris Ware, Paperback","description":"This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired everyman (\u003ci\u003eJimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e), 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 index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Ware\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.30h x 8.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375714542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/04\/2003 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/13\/2009 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHRIS WARE\u003c\/b\u003e is widely acknowledged as the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and seven-year-old daughter. \u003ci\u003eBuilding Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, released in 2012, received 4 Eisner Awards, including Best Graphic Album, in 2013. His \u003ci\u003eJimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London) in 2009. An irregular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker (\u003c\/i\u003ewhere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Ware","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45753394692324,"sku":"9780375714542","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780375714542.jpg?v=1777570078","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/jimmy-corrigan-the-smartest-kid-on-earth-chris-ware-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}