Ware's hero is a doughy, middle-aged loser who retreats into fantasies that he is "The Smartest Kid on Earth." The minimal plot involves Jimmy's tragicomic reunion with the father who abandoned him in childhood. In abruptly juxtaposed flashbacks, Ware depicts previous generations of Corrigan males, revealing how their similar histories of rejection and abandonment culminated in...(展开全部)

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 he...(展开全部)

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 he...(展开全部)

Ware's hero is a doughy, middle-aged loser who retreats into fantasies that he is "The Smartest Kid on Earth." The minimal plot involves Jimmy's tragicomic reunion with the father who abandoned him in childhood. In abruptly juxtaposed flashbacks, Ware depicts previous generations of Corrigan males, revealing how their similar histories of rejection and abandonment culminated in...(展开全部)

作者克里斯•韦尔是《纽约客》杂志的御用封面画家，《纽约客》的多期经典封面出自其手。 从最初连载到最终成书，英文原版《吉米•科瑞根》跨越了七年。在整个出版流程中，作者克里斯•韦尔事必躬亲，自脚本至绘制、自设计至印刷，均由其一手操刀。 本书每幅精准细致的画面，均未使用电脑矢量软件作为辅助工具，而是全部徒手完成。准确的线条，规矩的分格，乃至每个精细的字符，都是采用先打线格再手绘的手工模式，工程浩大繁复，极度耗费时间心力，但其极致效果亦无人企及。

安东尼•范•阿格塔米尔（Antoine van Agtmael） 阿格塔米尔是经济学术语“新兴市场”一词的提出者，是世界银行前经济学家，新兴市场管理公司主要创始人，曾任公司首席执行官，现任公共政策咨询公司加滕•罗特科普夫公司（Garten Rothkopf）资深顾问。著有《世界是新的》（The Emerging Markets Century）和《新兴证券市场》（Emerging Securities Markets）。 弗雷德·巴克（Fred Bakker） 历任《金融日报》副主编、主编、首席执行官。该报素有“荷兰的《金融时报》”之称。

安东尼•范•阿格塔米尔（Antoine van Agtmael） 阿格塔米尔是经济学术语“新兴市场”一词的提出者，是世界银行前经济学家，新兴市场管理公司主要创始人，曾任公司首席执行官，现任公共政策咨询公司加滕•罗特科普夫公司（Garten Rothkopf）资深顾问。著有《世界是新的》（The Emerging Markets Century）和《新兴证券市场》（Emerging Securities Markets）。 弗雷德·巴克（Fred Bakker） 历任《金融日报》副主编、主编、首席执行官。该报素有“荷兰的《金融时报》”之称。

The remarkable story of how rustbelt cities such as Akron and Albany in the United States and Eindhoven in Europe are becoming the unlikely hotspots of global innovation, where sharing brainpower and making things smarter—not cheaper—is creating a new economy that is turning globalization on its head Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker counter recent conventional wisdom that th...(展开全部)

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, th...(展开全部)

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, th...(展开全部)