This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and
emotionally-impaired "everyman" ( Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth ) who is provided
at age 36 the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance
which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan the reader
is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams which when read rapidly in
sequence provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported
by fold-out instructions an index paper cut-outs and a brief apology all of which concrete
to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.
