Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

Jimmy Corrigan, thirty-six and painfully shy, travels to meet the father he has never met over a single Thanksgiving weekend. A second thread follows his grandfather as a boy at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Ware handles silence, memory and disappointment in precise, quiet panels. It won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, the first graphic novel to take a major book prize.