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Name: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

Author: Chris Ware
Year: 2000
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Genres/categories:
Graphic Novels, Fiction

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ISBNs:
9780224063975
9780375714542
0224063979
0375714545

Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.

It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, Jimmy Corrigan is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed.

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**