In precise, almost jewel-like panels arranged in flow-charts and Mondrian-like grids, Chris Ware tells the story (does it count as a story, when there’s no hope whatsoever?) of a solitary, withdrawn man in his thirties who meets his father for the first time. The bleakness of Jimmy’s life is only relieved by his fantasies about his adventures as the Smartest Kid on Earth, which unfortunately also tend to end in … bleakness. Every page in Jimmy Corriganis a master class in minimalist graphic design, that slices time into discrete, intensely felt moments in a way that no other medium can.