Willie & Joe: The Wwii Years - The Wwii Years

Klappentext The definitive collection of the complete WWII cartoons of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation! now in paperback. Zusammenfassung During WWII! the closest most Americans ever came to it was through thecartoons of Bill Mauldin! the most beloved enlisted man in the U.S. Army. Here!for the first time! Fantagraphics Books brings together Mauldin's complete worksfrom 1940 through the end of the war. This collection of over 600 cartoons! mostnever-before-reprinted! is more than the record of a great artist: it is anessential chronicle of America's citizen-soldiers from peace through war tovictory. Bill Mauldin knew war because he was in it. With their heavy brush lines!detailed battlescapes! and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect! Mauldin'scartoons and captions recreated on paper the fully realized world of theAmerican combat soldier. Their dark! often insubordinate humor sparkedcontroversy among army brass and incensed General George S. Patton! Jr. This tome is edited by Todd DePastino! Mauldin's official biographer: Willie & Joe contains an introduction and running commentary byDePastino! providing context for the drawings! pertinent biographical details ofMauldin's life! and occasional background on specific cartoons (such as the onesthat made Patton howl).

Product details

• Authors: Bill Mauldin, Bill Mauldin, Mauldin Bill
• Assisted by: Todd Depastino (Editor), DePastino Todd (Editor), Todd DePastino (ed) (Editor)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9781606994399
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-439-9
• No. of pages: 692
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, Graphic Novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions