Jimmy Corrigan - Smartest Kid in the World

[Art]

Well, it?s certainly a different kind of reading experience from your average adventure comic, but I don?t see that as necessarily a bad thing. It?s a slow contemplative read for people who dig misery drawn in a clear diagrammatic fashion...

I don?t really buy the "confusing for non comics readers argument either" - It originated in the New York Times, where it would primarily have been read by non-comics readers, and then became a massive bestseller, again mostly with people who don't read comics. (Of course there's no guarantee that the people who bought it actually read it - I can see it also having an appeal as a "Brief History Of Time"-style trendy shelf filler.)

[Smiley]

Not knowing what comes next, I assume that represents a trip down memory lane to the point where parents are just highschool sweethearts. Does the story carry on in the past from that point?

Without preconception* I read that from top left clockwise, finishing in the middle, and it made sense that way. Seriously.

(*chin-stroking pseudyness, musing on the art of the graphic novel, trying to be "down with the author" etc)

[Quirkafleeg]

"Well, it?s certainly a different kind of reading experience from your average adventure comic"

ie hard work and boring

[Art]

You have no inner accountant.

[paulvonscott]

It's also very depressing, I won't be going back to it.

[hag]

I actually have this book... i think it's hard to go from reading very traditional "narrative" based comics (e.g. 2000ad) and then drive into Jimmy Corrigan.
But, yes, i like it a lot. I think you just need to give your self time and suspend your normal expectations.
Anyway, whats wrong with depressing? Was feeling shite last week, picked up the Heart of the Matter and felt a lot better!