Jimmy Corrigan Or, the Smartest Kid on Earth

This haunting and unshakable book will change the way you look at your world. Ware captures landscapes made to flatten emotion a clinic shrouded in snow, a sterile apartment complex and yet shows the reader the meaning and even beauty in every glimpse from a highway, every snippet of small talk. Time magazine

Jimmy Corrigan pushes the form of comics into unexpected formal and emotional territory. Chicago Tribune

Graphically inventive, wonderfully realized . . . [Jimmy Corrigan] is wonderfully illustrated in full color, and Ware s spare, iconic drawing style can render vivid architectural complexity or movingly capture the stark despondency of an unloved child. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Ware s use of words is sparing, and at times maudlin. But the real joy is his art. It's stunning. In terms of attention to detail, graceful use of color, and overall design Ware has no peer. And while each panel is relentlessly polished never an errant line or lazily rendered image his drawings, somehow, remain delicate and achingly lyrical. Dave Eggers, The New York Times Book Review