Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
I'd heard this graphic novel was amazing. Sounded pretty cool, had an image of a Calvin & Hobbes type thing (but with EDGE).
Oh no. Oh my. Suicide, impotence, unrequited love, lonely ageing.
It was fantastic but I came away wanting to die. Anyone ever read this?
The most disturbing thing of all is now I think about it, I don't remember impotence being in the story at all. WHY THE HELL DID I TYPE IT?
who's it done by?
Chris Ware
It was hours just watching the most miserable existence ever... argh, just remembering his lying over the phone to his mother makes my sphincter clench.
It's a wonderful book and so well written that it will often interest non-comic readers as well.
"What cha readin' fer??"
I love Chris Ware. Jimmy Corrigan reminds me of Harvey Pekar-style stuff, everyman existence that's somehow also completely tragic.
Ware is from Omaha, too, and he had a really fantastic exhibit at the university museum a few years ago. Wine + cheese+ Jimmy Corrigan=awesome.
There is hope, but not for us.
the part with the sons head and the cinderblock disturbed to no end.
great book though. kind of reminded me of Synecdoche, New York.
"It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities."
The new for of health care reform should include impotence as a serious health problem and should be including some facility for those who need to Buy Viagra .
It is a wonderful book, and yes very depressing. There was stuff in it that felt like it was a biography about me.