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.

“你看完这本书大致需要五小时，约莫等于我和我的父亲曾经相处时间的总和。”——克里斯·韦尔
这是一本经典的成人绘本，也可称为“图像小说”。英国《卫报》“第一本书奖”自设立起，该书是迄今唯一获奖的绘本作品。 女作家莎娣·史密斯在获奖结果公布前就认定《吉米·科瑞根》为其心目中的不二之选：“克里斯·韦尔应该马上当选——我根本不在乎名单上还有哪些人入围。
作者克里斯·韦尔的父亲在失踪三十年后，忽然以几通电话和一顿令人坐立 难安的晚餐出现在他面前。但当两人还没机会再见面之前，他父亲便死于心脏病发。这段充满失落寂寞、难堪痛苦，以及措手不及的经历，累积沉淀在克里斯·韦尔的心中，于是他以极端自制、干净且缜密的手法绘图，将小小的人物埋在小小的画格中。
《吉米·科瑞根》的故事分成两条主线，其一的主角是由单亲妈妈抚养长大的吉米·科瑞根，三十六岁，生活在1980年代，不擅交际、个性畏缩；某天他收到一封短信，寄件人自称是他未曾谋面的父亲，以一种故作轻松的语调邀他一起过感恩节假期，随信还附上一张机票——去，还是不去？吉米开始左思右想，还生出许多天马行空的幻象。另一条主线则发生在1890年代，当时吉米的祖父詹姆斯还是个九岁的孩子，住在正要举办世界博览会的芝加哥，母亲已经在生产的时候过世，而与父亲相依为命的生活，则似乎正要发生变化。
作者的巧妙构思和缜密绘图让你每次从头读起，仍能发现很多震撼人心的细节。从1993年开始，《吉米·科瑞根》在韦尔自创的美国地下漫画刊物The ACME Novelty Library上连载五年，2000年在美国出版后可谓佳评如潮，让各界人士眼睛一亮、赞不绝口。女作家莎娣·史密斯在获奖结果公布前就认定《吉米·科瑞根》为其心目中的不二之选：“克里斯·韦尔应该马上当选——我根本不在乎名单上还有哪些人入围。

4-time 2013 Eisner Award Winner: Best Lettering, Best Publication, Best Writer/Artist and Best Graphic Album
New York Times Book Review, Top 10 Books of the Year
Time Magazine, Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year
Publishers Weekly, Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews, Top 10 Fiction of 2012
Newsday, Top 10 Books of 2012
Entertainment Weekly, Gift Guide, A+
Washington Post, Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2012
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Best Books of the Year
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year
Amazon, Best Books of the Year/Comics
Boing Boing, Best Graphic Novel of the Year
Time Out New York, Best of 2012
Entertainment Weekly, Best Fiction of 2012
Everything you need to read the new graphic novel Building Stories: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets.
With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it’s reassuring—perhaps even necessary—to have something to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of maturity—while discovering a protagonist wondering if she’ll ever move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you’re feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in somewhat damaged form during REM sleep).
A pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on the back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set down, forget or completely lose any number of its contents within the walls of an average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Building Stories collects a decade’s worth of work, with dozens of “never-before-published” pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse, filthy or just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable periodical).
Winner of the 2013 Eisner Awards for Best Graphic Album-New, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Chris Ware is the winner of 2013 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist for Building Stories.
One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2012