A review by savaging
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

5.0

This work astonished me. The complexity communicated in Ware's simplified, tiny pictures. The emotional depth of a character that can't ever do much more than mumble and sniff. And the constant, haunting presence of racism, misogyny, and the lives of black women in a work that is ostensibly 'about' generations of white men.

My only complaint: I wish this book was at least twice as large, so I wasn't always bent-over and squinting at tiny words.