Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

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Chris Ware’s ironically titled Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), a long, drawn-out, formally innovative, eerily desperate autobiographical mosaic, is designed in a haunting rhythm of differently sized and related panel clusters, with Proustian memorial parentheses. It presents a bleak vision of childhood suffering, the pain of…
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Chris Ware’s ironically titled Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), a long, drawn-out, formally innovative, eerily desperate autobiographical mosaic, is designed in a haunting rhythm of differently sized and related panel clusters, with Proustian memorial parentheses. It presents a bleak vision of childhood suffering, the pain of…
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…wealth of material, such as Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) by Chris Ware, Persepolis (2000) by Marjane Satrapi, From Hell (1991–98) and Lost Girls (1991–2006) by Alan Moore, with artwork by Eddie Campbell and Melinda Gebbie, respectively, and Y:
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…wealth of material, such as Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) by Chris Ware, Persepolis (2000) by Marjane Satrapi, From Hell (1991–98) and Lost Girls (1991–2006) by Alan Moore, with artwork by Eddie Campbell and Melinda Gebbie, respectively, and Y:
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