The Golden Age of Comics ran alongside World War II, and it acted out stories even as the actual action took place. I can't quite imagine that happening with today's comics and war(s).
Jack Kirby and Joe Simon had a way of personalizing the big picture and bringing the war to a level that kid or adult could empathize with.
The Boy Commandos, from Detective Comics #67, September 1942:
Youse guys is da reason I post dese stories. No one else seems to give a flyin' patootie. 'At's awright. It's woith it, just ta have you twos trompin' tru da joint.
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My name is Thom Buchanan.
I'm an artist and photographer.
People are my favorite subjects to portray in art and photos. My wife (and studio partner) has called that my 'people skills', as I've been passionately creating portrait studies for many years.
I refer to myself as a pictorialist, a combination of image-making and journalist. Images are my life.
4 comments:
aw, now, that's the good stuff!
It certainly seemed like a different country back then. I couldn't imagine that kind of unity on anything anymore.
Thanks again for posting these, Thom... they're great!
Youse guys is da reason I post dese stories. No one else seems to give a flyin' patootie. 'At's awright. It's woith it, just ta have you twos trompin' tru da joint.
ah, stow it, ya pugly mug! I gots somet'in' in me eye!
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