Overview
The final volume of the acclaimed, multigenerational graphic memoir. In one of the most eagerly-anticipated graphic novels of 2012, Soldier's Heart concludes the story of Carol Tyler and her delving into her father’' war experiences in a way that is both surprising and devastating—and rather than trying to summarize this episode and thus possibly spoil it for readers, we prefer to simply offer a selection of comments on the first two installments of this autobiographical masterpiece.
Full Product Details
Author: C. Tyler ,
Carol Tyler
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Dimensions:
Width: 26.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 31.10cm
Weight: 0.969kg
ISBN: 9781606995488
ISBN 10: 1606995480
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 25 October 2012
Recommended Age: From 16
Audience:
General/trade
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Young adult
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General
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
""With her playful, fluid brush line and busy patchwork of watercolor woodgrain, Tyler's art looks like the past feels.""--Ken Jennings ""Publishers Weekly""
With her playful, fluid brush line and busy patchwork of watercolor woodgrain, Tyler s art looks like the past feels. --Ken Jennings
With her playful, fluid brush line and busy patchwork of watercolor woodgrain, Tyler's art looks like the past feels. --Ken Jennings
Author Information
Carol Tyler is one of the most enduring cartoonists of her generation. Debuting with the short story ""Un-Covered Property"" in Weirdo in 1987, she went on to contribute to other anthologies of the era like Street Music, Twisted Sisters, Wimmens Comix, Drawn & Quarterly, and Zero Zero. Her debut book, The Job Thing (Fantagraphics, 1993), collected stories that examined the intersections between working-class labor, artistic expression, and misogyny. Her second collection, Late Bloomer (Fantagraphics, 2005), spanned her career to date, and showcased her facility with vibrant color alongside her expressive pen-and-ink brushwork. In 2009, her three-volume series You'll Never Know serialised a biography of her father, tracing his return from WWII and the way the trauma of war and expectations of masculinity, affect soldiers' families and reverberate through generations. The first volume won Tyler nominations for the Eisner Awards for both Best Writer/Artist and Best Painter/Multimedia Artist. The series was expanded and compiled as Soldier's Heart (Fantagraphics, 2015). Tyler delved further into her own history for the 2018 Fab 4 Mania, referencing her own 1965 diary for a memoir of a 13-year-old girl's life as focussed through obsession with the Beatles, culminating in attending their final Chicago concert. In recent years she taught in Sequential Art at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning between 2006 and 2019, and moved to integrate the teaching, creative, practical, and caregiving aspects of her life via the Ink Farm, a Kentucky retreat for cartoonists to work. In 2023, Married To Comics, a documentary about Tyler's life with husband and fellow cartoonist Justin Green (1945-2022), premiered at the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre. She is completing her next memoir/graphic novel, The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of my Grief, to be published in 2025 by Fantagraphics.
