Word: corrigans
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...didn't work in comicbooks, Chris Ware would be famous by now. And he may yet be - after being selected for the Smithsonian's design triennial, and having his work published in the New Yorker, his first general-trade book, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," (Pantheon, $27.50) will appear in September...
...story of Jimmy Corrigan, both sad and mordantly hilarious (e.g. he is neither smart nor a kid, except emotionally), involves his visit to the father who abandoned him as a child. Among airport bars, convenience stores and modular housing Jimmy becomes involved in the lives of his father, his black adopted sister, Amy, and his grandfather, also named Jimmy. About two thirds of the way through we are given a lengthy flashback of grandpa Jimmy's childhood where we discover a forgotten secret. By the end we have read a small-scale history of America's last one hundred years...
...What is the origin of Jimmy Corrigan...
...ever meet the person who did this..." Corrigan said, her voice trailing...
...rather be locked out than risk having my door open to the world," said Corrigan's roommate, Eileen M. Walker...