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Summary: Beautifully depressing
Review: A wonderfully designed piece of art. Having all the Corrigan comics in one place vastly improves their readabliity.
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Summary: The Heart Aches
Review: There is a technique to longing, just as there is to image-making or poetry. Chris Ware's techinque is to give us Jimmy Corrigan. If Jimmy is hapless or bereft, it is because each day disappoints him in his attempts at finding something he lost (or never had). We are more than painfully aware of his efforts to dog embarrassment & failure. Because his hopes are so large, his yearnings continue beyond the pages of Chris Ware's wonderful book and engulf us. And when we, like Jimmy, shine our needy lights out into the night, it is the darkness of the whole aching universe, that consumes us.
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Summary: Blew me away
Review: I saw this book out of the corner of my eye in a bookstore and began reading. An hour later, tears streaming down my cheeks, i walked out of the store with it in my hands. more breathtaking than any other piece of literary fiction ive read. So meticulus, so vibrant in its storytelling. the best new novel of our young millenium.
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Summary: Virtuosic Storytelling
Review: Don't believe what Chris Ware might say about himself -- he is a gifted writer. This is to say nothing about his stunning talents as an artist and storyteller. This seven-years-in-the-making compilation of Jimmy Corrigan's story is both depressing and profound. It shouldn't be missed. Chris Ware transports the reader not only to another era, but into the middle of a man's web of pain, solitude and confusion. But he does so in such a delicate, meticulous manner; it's the perfect use of the comic book medium. Beautiful, poignant, sublime. I am a more complete person having read these comics.
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Summary: Brilliant -- Perhaps the first true graphic "novel"
Review: Having been entranced by Ware's "The Acme Novelty Catalog" (a meticulously produced comic book containing the Jimmy Corrigan novel and extras, plus other pieces and marginalia that rivals even that of Dave Eggers) for a long time, and having followed a great deal of this book's story in Chicago's NewCity paper, I was no less impressed and moved by encountering the entire story here in one collection. While the abject loneliness of Jimmy Corrigan is more deeply rendered through the extra vignettes in Acme Novelty Co., this book brilliantly captures the evolution of a strain of melancholy across generations (from the dispossesed Irish immigrant/veteran to the abused orphan to the ignored/smothered Jimmy), beautifully counterpointed by the promise of real family assembled from the fragments of others (Jimmy's father and sister). The epilogue (which, frankly, would resonate even more if some of the aforementioned vignettes had been included in this book) lends Jimmy's story a saving grace the likes of which I've not read in a novel -- text or graphical -- in ages. Chris Ware is an artist in more ways than one, and this book lends great hope to the maturation of the comic as serious literature.
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Summary: Amazing.
Review: I don't read comic books. Used to, thought I outgrew them. Then I read some reviews of this thing in Brill's Content and Time Magazine. I thought to myself, OK, maybe I should look into this. I bought it the first day it came into the bookstore that I work at. It's cliche but I laughed and I cried at it's brilliance and poignant storytelling. Melancholy at it's finest. I feel what this character feels. Amazing color illustrations that, from what I read, took about 8 years to complete. I can only hope that it won't take that long for another one to come out. In three words: Buy it now.
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Summary: Like Dickens but pretty...
Review: This is a really beautiful collection of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan comics. They shouldn't really be called comics. They're "comic-like illustrations" and they're accompanied by a story that's very rich and insightful. Ware is really aware of the medium and uses it to compliment the story. Each page, even though being a collection of frames, has an overall construction of color and geometry that makes it irresistable. You do not have to be a "comics fan" to appreciate this book.
This is an excellent book for anyone who has a liking for beautiful things that have meaningful insides.
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Summary: Comics for the Joyce set?
Review: Some dude from Twangtown gave this book a no star review which stated that if you like Joyce's Ulysses you'd probably like Jimmy Corrigan. He stole my argument. But then again does anyone not in college read James Joyce? Read this book now and bore your grandkids about how lovely the book is when they have to read it in honors English in 2047.
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Summary: Everything about this graphic novel is perfect.
Review: The art is beautiful. The story is sad and understated. It will really tear you up at parts. I love how Ware captures the awkwardness of everyday conversations. Sometimes we all feel a little like Jimmy Corrigan. Highly reccomended.
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Summary: Jimmy Corrigan: Suckiest Comic on Earth
Review: I usually LOVE graphic novels, and I was really excited after I heard all the great reviews for this book.
Then I read it, and it was awful. Really Awful. And it wasn't one of those things where I'm not smart enough to understand it. I get it, I understand what he is trying to say, and I've seen a lot of great graphic story telling. It was interesting, to see the artwork, but the story was awful and the characters were completely unlikable.
This book is not worth the time it takes to read it, and is ultimately diappointing. There are so many great books out there, don't waste your time with this, read something else, like "Lost at Sea".
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