Jimmy Corrigan viene paragonato all’Ulisse dei fumetti, inteso come Ulysses di Joyce.Ĭhris Ware considera i suoi lavori opere a tre, se non addirittura a quattro, dimensioni: ogni parte, dalla copertina al dorso, è elemento integrante della storia. Professa reverenza ed è pronto a genuflettersi davanti al grande Art Spiegelman. Il primo fumettista chiamato a esporre al Whitney Museum e nel 2006 gli è stata dedicata una personale al Museum of Contemporary Art di Chicago.Ĭhris Ware è stato appassionato di Peanuts sin da piccolo, al punto che scrisse una lettera a Charlie Brown per San Valentino perché gli dispiaceva il suo eroe di matita non ne ricevesse mai nessuna. È il disegnatore che ha vinto più premi di qualsiasi altro del suo settore. 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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