Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan - Blab 7

Chris Ware's next - broader - publication after Raw was Blab 7 (Winter 1992) published by the legendary Kitchen Sink Press. This pre-dates his Acme Novelty Library 1 (Winter 1993).

In Monograph this Jimmy Corrigan story is reprinted in mini-comic format (p121).
Chris Ware explains:
"Though I'd already filled the inside covers of Lonely Comics and Stories with the first serialized Daily Texan "Jimmy Corrigan" story from the end of my Austin days as a sort of decorative endpaper, I later expanded and colored the experiment in both Blab! and finally The ACME Novelty Library Number 10."
"I'd half-planned to release a small book in the wake of and in the same size as the Jimmy Corrigan graphic novel (but in a vertical orientation) collecting all of this earlier, awkward eponymous material under the intentionally ironic title "The Jimmy Corrigan Companion" but never got around to it - which was probably just as well, given its general puerility. In other words, my apologies for the sophomoric nature of the story which appears here, hopefully for the last time ever."

My less sophomoric/puerile Jimmy Corrigan pages:
https://www.2dgalleries.com/art/chris-ware-jimmy-corrigan-45755
https://www.2dgalleries.com/art/chris-ware-jimmy-corrigan-208140


Exhibited in Basel at the expo "Chris Ware: Paper Life" (2023).