How the world was
Subtitle: a California childhood
By: Emmanuel Guibert ; translation, Kathryn Pulver
Contributors: Pulver, Kathryn, translator
Edition: First American Edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781596436640
Subjects: Social life and customs; Childhood and youth; Biography; Comic books, strips
Work titles: L'Association as L'enfance d'Alan
Description: In 1994, French cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert befriended an American veteran named Alan Cope and began creating his new friend's graphic biography. Alan's War was the surprising and moving result: the story of Cope's experiences as an American GI in France during World War II. How the World Was is Emmanuel Guibert's moving return to documenting the life of his friend. Cope died several years ago, as Guibert was just beginning work on this book, but Guibert has kept working to commit his friend's story to paper. Cope grew up in California during the great depression, and this remarkable graphic novel details the little moments that make a young man's life...while capturing the scope of America during the great depression.
Notes: Translated from the French.

Originally published in French by L'Association as L'enfance d'Alan.