![]() This evening is particularly memorable for young James because his father treats him with, relatively speaking, “warmth,” and the child treasures “the evening’s facsimile of familial affection.” In a two-paragraph response, explain how elements of the Barney story surface in the nineteenth-century narrative (that focuses on William and James) and in the late twentieth-century narrative (that centers on Jim and Jimmy). Chris Ware’s ironically titled Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), a long, drawn-out, formally innovative, eerily desperate autobiographical mosaic, is designed in a haunting rhythm of differently sized and related panel clusters, with Proustian memorial parentheses. Around 2000 when people were talking serious graphic novels, we didn't have a whole lot to point to. ![]() Corrigan used the death of a former slave named Barney as an occasion to acquire a skeleton for his medical office. I don't think Jimmy Corrigan is a perfect work, but it is both a strong one and one that is a big deal in the history of North American comics. On the evening that William Corrigan’s mother Mary Ann dies, he regales his son James with the story of how his own father Dr. Read the graphic novel “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth” by Chris Ware and answer the following prompt: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware ![]()
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