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  "thread": {
    "id": 2579,
    "subject": "Book recommendation: Jimmy Corrigan",
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    "first": "2001-03-15T23:08:28+00:00",
    "last": "2001-03-15T23:08:28+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0299@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-03-15T23:08:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Book recommendation: Jimmy Corrigan",
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          "text": "I didn't chime in during the \"who's a catholic\" discussion. I'm not \none, but my tastes in reading are.\n\nI know there are some other people on this list who like reading \ncomic books, oops, I mean a graphic novels, so I feel it is \nappropriate to strongly recommend _Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid \non Earth_ by Chris Ware, which I have just finished reading.\n\nI am mentioning it on this list because I feel there are certain \nresonances between Gene Wolfe's work and Chris Ware's. They share a \ncertain formality of tone and Ware also makes you do your fair share \n(or more) of the work in figuring out what is going on in the story.\n\nWare's protagonist is much more dysfunctional than most of Wolfe's \ncharacters and his story is more grim tahn many. Ware's book also is \nnot science fiction or fantasy, although it certainly draws on these \ngenres.\n\nI think very highly of Scott McCloud's 1993 book _Understanding \nComics_, in fact I would go so far as to say that I think it is a \nwork of genius. One of McCloud's themes is that comics can accomplish \nthings that can be done in no other medium. If you want a \ndemonstration that this is true, read _Jimmy Corrigan_.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
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