It’s Throwback Thursday! Twenty-one years ago this month, Chris Ware’s seminal graphic novel, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth was published.

Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as one of the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.

It is the tragic story of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, Jimmy Corrigan is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed.