![]() ![]() ![]() The great thing about this book is the brilliant graphic concepts which dazzle and delight on every other page. Well, no, I didn’t hate it, I hated reading it. This is a five star graphic novel, so I am giving it five stars. ![]() So this book drops a point on my less than 20-20 vision reread of this book to 7 out of 12. For me, the art has to help tell the story, and in this case it doesn't, it does the opposite and I struggled to see the story that the art was trying to tell. 1.The use of italics to narrate a lot of the story makes the text extremely hard to read for people (like me) without 20-20 vision and 2. However from a graphic novel perspective it has two rather major failings. A truly amazing and maybe semi-biographical book that pulls few punches and richly deserves the many awards that it has received. The supporting tale recounts his grandfather, also called Jimmy Corrigan growing up under the abusive patronage of a single father in late nineteenth century Chicago. The main story looks at awkward, middle aged social recluse, mummy's boy Jimmy Corrigan as he travels across America to see a father he has never met or seen before. A multi award winning gem by Chris Ware as he tells two stories across, in-between and around one another. ![]()
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