Awards
- Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Graphic Novel) 2015
Overview
Soldier's Heart is a sophisticated graphic masterpiece about the damaging effects of war on soldiers and the toll it can take on families. Many soldiers come back from war and never talk about it — especially those from the Greatest Generation. Thus was the case with S/Sgt. Charles W. Tyler, who late in life began to open up to his daughter Carol. By looking at him, you would never know that he was wounded in combat, but as she states at the beginning: ""Not all scars are visible."" The narrative unfolds over 364 pages of masterfully crafted drawings. Stunning ink and color washes weave through the decades: Tyler examines the past in sepia, confronts reality in stark black & white and uses rich color to convey the moods and fragility of the present. She overlays her father's memories with her own, while struggling to understand her troubled life: a failed marriage, a teenage daughter on the edge, and an elderly father and mother. Literate, emotionally engaging and historically accurate, Soldier's Heart is a magnificent achievement. Soldier's Heart collects Tyler's hardcover series You'll Never Know, serialized between 2009 and 2012, and contains nearly thirty new pages of additional content.
Full Product Details
Author: Carol Tyler ,
Carol Tyler
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Dimensions:
Width: 26.50cm
, Height: 4.00cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 1.346kg
ISBN: 9781606998960
ISBN 10: 160699896
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 03 December 2015
Recommended Age: From 16
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
While centered around the author s efforts to process her father s wartime experience, Tyler s story bleeds out into the circumstances of her family s history, her pages racing through narrative stratagems, practically one per situation; the enormous versatility of her drawing unifies paneled pages, booming splashes and mixed media-type info outlays into a self-evident means of making sense of things you ve lived with, but not actually witnessed.--Joe McCulloch
Author Information
Born in Chicago in the 1950s, Carol Tyler is a cartoonist who bridged underground and alternative comics with her debut in Weirdo magazine in 1987: collections such as The Job Thing (1993) and Late Bloomer (2005) followed. In 2015, Fantagraphics published Soldier's Heart, her Eisner Award-nominated biography of her father, tracing his return from WWII and how his trauma impacted his family. Fab4 Mania (Fantagraphics, 2018), based on her 1965 diary, is about her teenage obsession with the Beatles. In recent years, she has taught Sequential Art at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is a CXC Master Cartoonist and a Slate Studio Prize winner. In 2023, Married To Comics, a documentary about Tyler's life with her husband and fellow cartoonist Justin Green (1945-2022), won rave reviews.
