Yes. Sit down. Let me explain why Jimmy Corrigan is not only the best comic ever made but the only comic that makes the phrase make sense. Why It Wins Criterion #1 (Craftsmanship) Chris Ware doesn’t draw comics. He builds them. Every panel is a diorama of despair. The lettering is custom. The color palette is a bruise—muted reds, sickly yellows, hospital grays. The page layouts are architectural blueprints of loneliness.
Yes. It’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth . fucking possible comic best
But let’s be honest: Every comic reader has had that 2 a.m. argument. The one where voices rise, beer bottles become gesticulating weapons, and someone eventually shouts, beer bottles become gesticulating weapons