num_pages: 380
description: 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.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.
language: English
title: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
titlecomplete: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
characters: Jimmy Corrigan
genres: Fiction, American, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Art, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Comix, Sequential Art, Comic Book
ratings_count: 23715
places: Michigan, Chicago, Illinois
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Harvey Awards
category: Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Prix du Festival d'Angoulême
category: Alph-art du meilleur album, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
category: Best Graphic Album: Reprint, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Grand Prix de la Critique
publisher: Jonathan Cape