WARE, Chris. Jimmy Corrigan, or, The Smartest Kid on Earth.

(New York, NY): Pantheon/ Random House, 2000.  First edition.  Oblong octavo.  Unpaginated.  The first printing of Ware’s graphically inventive, wonderfully realized novel-in-comics that follows the sad fortunes of four generations of phlegmatic, defeated men while touching on themes of abandonment, social isolation and despair within the sweeping depiction of Chicago’s urban transformation over the course of a century.   A very good plus copy in dust jacket.  A nice copy of this groundbreaking work.