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.