Willie & Joe Come Home

Willie & Joe Come Home
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WWIIâ€™s most famous soldiers, Willie and Joe, battle civilian life upon their return home in this sequel.
In the summer of 1945, a great tide of battered soldiers began flowing back to the united States from around the globe. Though victorious, these exhausted men were nevertheless too grief-stricken over the loss of comrades, too guilt-ridden that they had survived, and too numbed by trauma to share in the countryâ€™s euphoria. Most never saw a ticker-tape parade, or stole a Times Square kiss. All they wanted was to settle back into quiet workaday lives without fear. How tragic that the forces unleashed by World War II made this simple wish impossible.

Willie & Joe: Back Home brilliantly chronicles the struggles and disillusionments of these early postwar years and, in doing so, tells Bill Mauldinâ€™s own extraordinary story of his journey home to a wife he barely knew and a son he had only seen in pictures. The drawings capture the texture and feel, the warp and woof, of this confusing time: the ubiquitous hats and cigarettes, the domestic rubs, the rising fear of another war, and new conflicts over Civil Rights, civil liberties, and free speech. This second volume of Fantagraphicsâ€™ series reprinting Mauldinâ€™s greatest work identifies and restores the dozens of cartoons censored by Mauldinâ€™s syndicate for their attacks on racial segregation and McCarthy-style â€œwitch hunts.â€ Mauldin pleaded with his syndicate to let him out of his contract so that he could return to the simple quiet life so desired by Willie & Joe. The syndicate refused, so Mauldin did battle, as always, through pen and ink. 288 pages of black-and-white cartoons
Country USA
Brand Fantagraphics
Manufacturer Fantagraphics Books
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781606993514
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Fantagraphics
Manufacturer	Fantagraphics Books
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781606993514
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Willie & Joe Come Home

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