– Det er mye som kan sies med tegninger som ikke kan skrives i en roman. Ware er en som tydeligvis vet å utnytte dette og lar tegningene stå for det meste av fortellingen i denne romanen om Jimmy Corrigan og hans reise for å møte sin far. Samtidig får vi historien til Jimmys slekt og deres hemmeligheter. Tegningene er klare og detlajrike, men mangler varme. Det samme gjør karakteren til Jimmy og det hele er med på å skape en litt trist stemning gjennom hele historien. Selv humoren blir dermed litt mørk. Dette er som beksrevet en grafisk roman og ikke en tegneserie i ordets vanlige betydning. Det er faktisk veldig oppfriskende å kunne følge en lang historie ved å bruke øyne men uten å lese så mye. Anbefales.
Jimmy Corrigan
«A work of genius»
Zadie Smith
Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.
Les merJimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.
It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, Jimmy Corrigan is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 380
- ISBN
- 9780224063975
- Utgivelsesår
- 2003
- Format
- 17 x 21 cm
Om forfatteren
Anmeldelser
«A work of genius»
Zadie Smith
«Chris Ware has produced a book as beautiful as any published this year, but also one which challenges us to think again about what literature is and where it is going»
Claire Armitstead, Guardian
«A mesmerising and heartbreaking tale of a heavily burdened and desperately unhappy individual, and the lasting influence of toxic family ties.»
Evening Standard
«A bona fide masterpiece.»
Strong Words
«Jimmy Corrigan is certainly the greatest thing in strip cartoons since Krazy Kat and Little Nemo»
Raymond Briggs
«Ware is the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has known - arguably the greatest achievement of the form ever»
Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review
«This new book seems to be another milestone in the demonstration of what comics can be»
Art Spiegelman, author of Maus
«Perhaps best read in a single sitting, Jimmy Corrigan is perceptive, poetic, and sometimes profound, generously rewarding the absorption it requires»
Independent
«Jimmy Corrigan is a dazzlingly handsome book with every detail lovingly attended to. The book is demanding, disturbing, funny and exciting. Oh yes, and essential»
Time Out