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Has /lit/ read Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth? What did /lit/ think of it?

>> No.2226926

I love Chris Ware with all my heart. Jimmy Corrigan was pretty good, but I like his most recent work better. The stuff about Rusty Brown and Jordan Lint and that girl with one leg. Jordan Lint is actually really interesting and a huge formal departure from almost everything else he's done. Check that shit out if you haven't.

>> No.2226923

I like the art more than the writing.

>> No.2226946

Why are there always so many comics threads on /lit/?

I love comics, but they sure as fuck don't belong on this board.

>> No.2226983

>>2226923

I thought a lot of the writing was great. Especially Jimmy's dad. Man, he put me there, right in those awkward attempts at conversation.

My only gripe was that I thought Jimmy was a just a little *too* pathetic. Not enough to take me out of the story, but enough to bug me. People with depression/social anxiety don't stutter every single words they say and say "um" in between every word.

>> No.2227048

>>2226983

Yeah, it had its moments. Some of the writing was quite insightful--little instances, nuances sharply observed. But the whole failed to connect. I came away feeling like I read something weighty, yet unsubstantial. The protagonist's characterization, as you mentioned, was undoubtedly contributory to this disconnect.

>> No.2227179

the only comic i ever read that didn't suck

>> No.2227214

>>2226923
>2011
>separating writing from drawing in comics
>ishygddt

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>> No.2227224

It ranks pretty high with me. I thought Ware's page layouts were brilliant. Not to mention, some of the scenes with Jimmy's Grandfather were downright beautiful.

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2227228

cartoons >>>/co/

>> No.2227232

>>2227228
>filename

Haha, I loved that thread.

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You guys should check Asterios Polyp

>> No.2227283

Hey /lit. I just started getting into poetry and I'm really digging Billy Collins' work. Anything you can recommend that's similar to it?

>> No.2227312

Jimmy Corrigan is fucking incredible. There were parts that, if it wasn't so cold and obtuse, would have reduced me to bitch tears. Failing that, it just kind of bummed me the fuck out. In a good way.

Unrelated, but picked up a pretty good comic recently called "Daytripper". It's about this obituary-writer in San Juan, and each chapter encapsulates a period of his life, and ends with him dying in some brutal fashion, accompanies by an obituary that sums up who he was at that particular point in time.

That DID reduce me to bitch tears.

>> No.2229054

Jimmy Corrigan was one of the most affecting works I've ever read. Ware captured the bleak Midwest absolutely fucking perfectly. The art is unreal. I didn't think the old timey parts were as good as the present day ones, but it was all good.

>> No.2229097

>>2227219
I don't know in what order to read these panels. Maybe I should stick to books...

>> No.2229116

Chris Ware is SO talented that I really like him despite the content of his work not speaking to me, like, at all. Dan Clowes is my boy where I love the way he writes, I love the way he draws, I even love the way he letters, I'm kind of uncritical about him, but Ware's mopey ass forces me to respect and enjoy him even as I'm like "Jesus Christ, dude, get a grip"

>> No.2229224

>>2229097

I mean, it could be confusing sometimes, but it wasn't THAT bad.

>> No.2229487

>>2229097
>>2229224
Who said there is an order at all?