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I thought Jimmy Corrigan was such a treat of a read :-) The Road is somewhere on my TBR. Maybe you haven't read as many books as you usually do, but you've read good ones! ... by J.M. DeMatteis, et al
10. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
11. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
12. Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
13. Superman: Kryptonite by Darwyn Cooke, and Tim Sale
14. Superman: LAST SON by Geoff Johns, Richard Donner, Ad ... ... from Made into Movies/TV Shows
6. The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch from Graphic Novels
7. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware from Graphic Novels
8. Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories by Gil Hernandez from Authors I've N ... Charles Burns' Black Hole is really a great one, also especially like Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware and consider David B.'s Epileptic a masterpiece of the form. I've finished Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth and have updated CK (for the most part - character names were pretty sketchy - all the men were Jimmy Corrigan!) and posted a review. I'm going to be starting Palomar which ... After finishing a non-999 challenge book, I've started Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid On Earth - I'm this much closer to getting my library TBR (to-be-read, to-be-returned) pile down! Woo! ... pretty closely in the film, the second book seemed to have only had a few of the broader strokes covered.
I'm starting Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid On Earth now. ... of broken dreams, Persepolis 2 (not on the list, will be a bonus book), Palomar: the heartbreak soup stories, Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid on earth, and Kapilavastu (Buddha, Vol. 1) are all due by the 20th...you don't even want to know about by the 23rd...
I'm going to get ... ... finished 2/7
6. Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis by Len Wein finished 1/31
7. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware finished 2/14
8. Life in the Big City by Kurt Busiek finished 2/3
... Four in 2008, all very good, but the last two are my favorites:
Corrigan by Caroline Blackwood
The Dud Avacado by Elaine Dundy
A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy 'Brien
The PostOffice Girl by Stefan Zweig ... drawing of a mouse saying 'Hi Paul' in a word balloon.
One of my favorites is a signed first edition, third printing of Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware.
Another favorite is a signed copy of New York The Big City by Will Eisner.
I also have signed books ... 18) Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (380 pages)
Wow-wee. Talk about a downer. Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan is a socially retarded, lonely man with a domineering mother -- your stereotypical uber-loser. Great emotional realism. Very painful to read. Bravo, Chris.
19) J ... ... Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wol ... ... seems to have higher standards than most and always gravitate to them at the book store.
My most recent NYRB read was Corrigan by Caroline Blackwood. ... turns.
Non-superhero recommendations:
Bone by Jeff Smith
Clumsy by Jeffrey Brown
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Hope you enjoy some of ... ... Love by Bill Bright
The books I am intending to read so far are:
The Dark Foundations by Chris Walley
Jimmy by Robert Whitlow
The Shack by William Young
The Legend of the Firefish by George Bryan Polivka
The Hand that Bears the Sword also by George B ... ... not only did they not have but their graphic novels selection was horrible and in no order whatsoever. I almost picked up Jimmy Corrigan but ended up deciding on a cheaper paperback. That seems to be my problem with Graphic Novels. They're just a tad more expensive than other books so I always ... ... Chinese
Ghost World
Persepolis
Burying Sandwiches
Grickle
Epileptic
Blankets
Goodbye, Chunky Rice
Jimmy Corrigan
Fun Home
Mother, Come Home
Dogs and Water so here's the good stuff that i've read so far:
Maus
Palestine
Pyongyang
Shenzhen
Exit Wounds
Dogs and Water ... by the end I am completely wrapped up in them and my mind bursting with ideas.
I've also been reading the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth on the side, which offers such deep and lonely characters I can't help but get deeply invested in the story each time I pick it ... ... comics, and have proven to be willing to shell out large sums of money for quality. For example, on LT 794 users own Jimmy Corrigan, 791 own Ghost World, over a thousand own Maus, 757 own Blankets, over two thousand total copies of Persepolis and its sequel are owned. Because Yos ... ... and threads to the story. It had no plot. Satrapi's was episodic.
What's absolutely gorgeous about Epileptic or Jimmy Corrigan is you just know editors had minimal or if anything at all to do with their works except for the packaging!
I was blowing some steam when I initiated the ... ... to sell here?
One of my pet theories is as follows. Prestigious indie comics have taken off in America (e.g. Maus, Jimmy Corrigan, Eightball) in the past decade, to the point where now Time includes graphic novels in its end-of-year best-of lists, and the New York Times ... ... I love the hand-drawn work of Lutes and Teddy Kristiansen's It's a Bird, but I also become deeply engaged in Ware's Jimmy Corrigan and linger over his palette and the gem-like teensy panels buried among the larger ones. Yummy. His clean lines lends a quietude and a calmness that nicely ... ... Chris Ware. I love his design sense and I find his books really compelling, but damn it! I can't read half of the Jimmy Corrigan books without a 30x magnifier. It's maddening. It's very interesting for me to see the legacy of earlier comics in today's. Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan shows alot of Windsor McKay's influence in his subject and art. His lettering is oddly very McKay-ish, too. ... about my impressions and hear other people's critiques and thoughts about their "experiences."
First of all, reading Jimmy Corrigan (I'm only 1/4 into the book) is a mind-bending experience from the get-go, asking us, driving us to see as Chris Ware/Jimmy Corrigan sees the world. Wow.
... ... be illness narratives). Other notable non-fantasy comics that haven't come up are Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid on Earth by Chris Ware.
Other people have mentioned Watchmen and Dark Knight, two comics that deconstructed the superhero. I have ... ... literally "see" the plot unfold -- in pure text, it would have been long boring paragraphs.
Then there's a story like Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware. It's a very sad story. There are several panels where nothing happens. That's part of the story. It's hard to write in words. But the ... ... school but really didn't get into the form as an adult until this year ... I read and really enjoyed Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan:the smartest kid on earth, the Walking Dead series, 100 bullets, We3, Torso ... adding a graphic dimension to the stories made for a great experience. ... nides.
11. loneliness: a tie: Carson McCullers' The Heart is Lonely Hunter (the only one I got without looking!) and Jimmy Corrigan : The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware (which I'd never heard of).
12. weird: Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk. I also see The Men who Stare at Goats ... ... so how could I not have a penchant for him? :-) And last but not least, everyone should have the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware---just brilliant and beautifully illustrated!
On the non-fiction front I would have to say that Slim's Tabl ...
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