While still a sophomore at UT, Ware came to the attention of Art Spiegelman, who invited Ware to contribute to Raw, the influential anthology magazine Spiegelman was co-editing with Françoise Mouly.

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Hard to read in places, but fascinating in its Theodore Dreiserian way, its depiction of how lost and damaged so many people are. At the same time, the reader learns of a more complicated backstory to that diverse family (blood, and not just adoption, link Amy to her half brother). The unreadable thing about this book is its subject matter, which is the life of a miserable loner with a bullying father examined in very great painful detail. There is a point in Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, about a third of the way through, when the author provides a summary of the story so far. In 2003-04, Ware worked with Ira Glass of This American Life and Chicago historian Tim Samuelson to illustrate and design Lost Buildings about Samuelson and the preservation of Chicago's old buildings, particularly Louis Sullivan's buildings.Scarborough MP Lawrie Quinn said Mr Corrigan had personified the town, being well-known throughout the local area, and also in the wider seaside community. He emphasizes the alienation of the characters by focusing on the architecture, somewhat akin to the way John Ford uses long shots of mesas in Monument Vally in his westerns, or the way Ozu uses "pillow shots" in his movies. Thus, Ware creates a collection of fonts, which design the subjective narrative, strengthening and directing it from point to point.

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E invece le pagine rettangolari sono tante, quattrocento circa, e ognuna può richiedere anche un buon quarto d’ora di ‘lettura’, perché può contenere anche trenta quadri, di cui alcuni sono 2 cm x 2,5 cm, e non è semplice seguirne l’ordine, a volte Ware usa le frecce, a volte no, dialogo e didascalie a volte sono interni al quadro a volte invece esterni, nel qual caso appartengono a quale disegno, quello sopra o quello sotto, quello di destra o quello di sinistra? Given that the protagonist never discovers this history that the reader is privy to, the novel refuses a simple conclusion in which the protagonist finds or even fully knows himself.

The main story about the present day Jimmy Corrigan, is about an awkward, middle aged, social recluse, a mummy’s boy.