Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Chris Ware.

The story was serialized in the alternative Chicago weekly newspaper Newcity and in Ware's comic book Acme Novelty Library in issues #5–6, 8–9, and 11–14) from 1995 to 2000.

[1] Jimmy Corrigan is a meek, lonely thirty-six-year-old man who meets his father for the first time in the fictional town of Waukosha, Michigan, over Thanksgiving weekend.

Notable motifs in Jimmy Corrigan include a robot, a bird, a peach, a miniature horse, and a flawed superhero figure.

[7] In a 2003 interview, Seth MacFarlane claimed that he had never seen the comic strip before, describing the similarities as being "pretty shocking" and added that he understood how Ware had reached that conclusion.