Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

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Find sources: "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Jimmy Corrigan was born to Mrs. Corrigan. Jimmy Corrigan had no relationship with his father when he was growing up, considering his mother kept Jimmy's father's identity a secret for most of his life. Creation The book turns on Jimmy's journey to the city to meet his father for the first time at the age of 36. The trip reveals that his grandfather was just as defeated by the world as he.However, writer and comedian Charlie Higson, novelist Jonathan Coe and historian Roy Porter were won over by Ware's portrayal of the travails of the bemused and phlegmatic Jimmy, a man adrift in 1980s small town Michigan just like his grandfather was in 1890s Chicago. And AL Kennedy felt it moved "the whole genre forward hugely".

SL: How do the characters in Rusty Brown and their universe relate to the worlds of your other work? Is there a sort of Ware-verse in which they cohabit? This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. In addition to the graphic novel, the character of Jimmy Corrigan has appeared in other Ware comic strips, sometimes as his imaginary child genius character, sometimes as an adult. Corrigan began as a child genius character in Ware's early work, but as Ware continued, the child genius strips appeared less frequently, and increasingly followed Corrigan's sad, adult existence. Claire Armitstead, the Guardian literary editor, who chaired the judges, said: "Jimmy Corrigan is a fantastic winner, because it so clearly shows what the Guardian award is about - it is about originality and energy and star quality, both in imagination and in execution. Chris Ware has produced a book as beautiful as any published this year, but also one which challenges us to think again about what literature is and where it is going." SL: There’s a dichotomy sometimes made between “grown-up comics” and the superhero/funny-papers/genre type. Your work seems to be an example of the former that’s very interested in the latter, as a fantasy contrast to the humiliating mundanity of ordinary life. Do you feel affectionate towards that sort of storytelling? What does that sort of fantasy offer?Kirklees Council ought to do something to recognise what he did for the area. It was an amazing piece of social engineering. Batley was a grubby, scruffy little town. James was very brave because he put a lot on the line. Thankfully, it paid off, not just for him but for the whole area.”