Willie & Joe

Willie & Joe Back Home

Hardback (28 Jul 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Brilliantly chronicling the struggles and disillusionments of the early post-war years and telling Bill Mauldin's own extraordinary story of his journey home in 1945 to a wife he barely knew and a son he had only seen in pictures, Willie & Joe: Back Home captures the texture and feel of this confusing time. This second volume reprints Mauldin's greatest work, identifying and restoring dozens of cartoons originally censored for their attacks on racial segregation and McCarthy-style witch hunts.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781606993514
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 973.9180207
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 265
Weight: 1118g
Height: 256mm
Width: 212mm
Spine width: 29mm