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Issue: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth #[nn]
Publication Date: April 2003
 
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Publisher: FlagPantheon
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Indicia Publisher: Pantheon Books
On Sale Date: 04/29/2003
Volume: none
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9780375714542
UPC/EAN: 978037571454251795
Price: $26.95 CAD
$17.95 USD
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Content Items: 9 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 8" x 6.5" (20.32 cm x 16.51 cm)
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Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Subject Matter
Jimmy Corrigan
Jimmy Corrigan
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Miscellaneous
1.52
wraps around into part of the back cover
General Instructions

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
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A mock introduction into the reading of comics, divided into five sections. Includes an "exam" and two tiny illustrations.
New Pictorial Language Makes Marks

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Quimby the Mouse
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1
A mock academic article from the "Journal of Liberal Arts Degrees" extolling the progress of "pictorial linguistics." Accompanied by a Quimby the Mouse diagram.
Popular Press Easily Duped

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Credits
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typeset
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Quotes from Time, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice Literary Supplement, The Onion, Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, Matt Groening, The Boston Herald, The Detroit Free Press, Wired, The Arkansas Democrat Gazette, The Hartford Courant, The Virginia Pilot, The Madison Daily Cardinal, The Dallas Morning News, The Nashville Scene, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Seattle Stranger, The Silicon Valley Metro, The Washington City Paper, The Wall Street Journal, Ted Rall, The Washington Post, Robert Cook (from the Comics Journal message board), The London Independent, Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, David Sedaris, San Jose Mercury News, The Omaha World Herald, The New York Times, The Boston Sunday Globe, The LA Times Book Review, The London Review of Books, The John Hopkins News-Letter, Time Out, CNN and BBC Newsnight.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Jimmy Corrigan
Jimmy Corrigan
A complex two-page diagram that covers Jimmy Corrigan's family tree, his nineteenth century ancestors, his comic book collection, the layout of his house, the history of Chicago as well as the Earth and its relation to the Sun and other planets.
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Jimmy Corrigan
Jimmy Corrigan; Jimmy's Mom [Estelle]; Super-Man; Peggy; Jack; Jimmy's Dad [James William Corrigan]; Amos; Billy; Avery; Jimmy's Great Grandfather [William Corrigan]; Young Salesman Newsboy; Jimmy's Grandfather [James Reed Corrigan]; Jimmy's Great Great Grandmother [Marianne]; Matthew McClintock; William's Doctor; Andrew; Cheryl; Amy Corrigan; Mortician; Miss McGinty; Kinney; Phillip Stewart; Phillip's Mother; Marie; Phillip's Father; The Maid; Antonio; Culbert; Dr. Smith; Dr. Wilson; Kevin; Stephanie; Howard Johnson; Tammy; Mrs. Nelson
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Corrigenda

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Background details on how the story and book came into being. Accompanied by thirteen small drawings.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Jimmy Corrigan
Amy Corrigan
Rise and shine, Mrs. Nelson.
Amy attends patients at the hospital during Thanksgiving.
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Ends on the inside back cover.
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Subject Matter
humorous
Chris Ware
Somewhere near Hong Kong:
A strip detailing the life of a "Jimmy the Corrigan" book from the printing press to the bookstore to Chris Ware's house.
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