Jimmy Corrigan
September 22nd, 2003
Chris Ware’s award-winning comic Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth is nothing short of fucking brilliant. It’s a minimalist character study spread over three generations wrapped in a subtle history of Chicago, with effects unique to the comic book form. It’s terrificly sad and beautifully drawn, with hypercomplex layouts that are well worth staring at for extended periods of time. Don’t miss this.
November 21st, 2006 at 6:05 pm
[...] 1085 new pages by a favorite author can’t go unnoted here, even though Pynchon, by force of volume and encyclopedic reach, resists instant blogification. I just lugged my copy home from Shakespeare & Co., and there’s not much I can tell you yet. The first chapter, wolfed down eagerly on an overcrowded R train, concerns the Chums of Chance, the intrepid crew of a “hydrogen skyship” on its way to the Chicago World Fair (also featured prominently in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan.) I’m staying away from reviews and spoilers, but I’m sure eventually the Pynchon Wiki is going to come in handy. Here’s the book’s epigraph: It’s always night, or we wouldn’t need light. –Thelonious Monk [...]