This singular and polysemic work appears as the culmination of an art form too long under exploited comics. Chris Ware operates today all the possibilities that offer him the drawing, cutting, layout, color, size, lettering, in short, everything that the language of the comic peculiar and original . Jimmy Corrigan and reflects the maturity of an uninhibited art compared to cinema or literature. But it would be unfair not to stick to formal success, both the content of the work, too, of infinite wealth. Jimmy, old boy, 36, is a social disability whose daily dull, filled with office colleagues indifferent and chanted by the phone calls of a possessive mother, escape offer in reverie. Until the day his father he never knew, send her a plane ticket to come together and renew the son who never existed. The story then mixes mixes reality to fantasies, memories in dreams, words to the unspoken, to allow the reader to glimpse the roots of the unspeakable sadness of Jimmy Corrigan. By refusing any spectacular and with special attention to objects and downtime, Chris Ware manages to make palpable the mental universe of his anti-hero and delivers a modern and narrative. Chris Ware, the comic becomes a living writing, a new arrangement of small squares drawn where the pace is music to express the inner drama of his characters. Jimmy Corrigan as the ultimate proof of the existence of comics as an art in itself.
