New Releases by Chris Ware

Jimmy Corrigan est le garçon le plus intelligent de la Terre, c''est Superman qui le lui a dit. Mais quand Superman se suicide, tout s''accélère pour Jimmy. Il fait la connaissance de son père Jimmy, de son grand-père Jimmy et de sa soeur Amy. Un comics semi-autobiographique qui fait voyager le lecteur entre la réalité et les rêves angoissés de Jimmy. Guardian First Book Award 2000, meilleur album au Festival d''Angoulême 2003.

The first book from the Chicago author of the “stunning” Building Stories (The New York Times) is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally impaired "everyman," who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. “This haunting and unshakable book will change the way you look at your world.” —Time magazine “There’s no writer alive whose work I love more than Chris Ware.” —Zadie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Swing 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.

One of the first specialist warships, the bomb vessel was a floating siege engine carrying huge shell-firing mortars for the purposes of bombarding stationary targets, such as coastal towns, fortifications or harbours. For its time, it was a complex and high-tech weapons system, and was widely used by the British in every conflict between 1689 and the War of 1812. Because of their strength, bomb vessels played a major role in Arctic exploration.

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