The Story
MY YEAR IN VIETNAM TP
(W) GEORGE RYAN (A) EVE GILBERT (C) EVE GILBERT
FANTAGRAPHICS UNDERGROUND
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Plucked from his workaday youth as an Irish-American kid from Brooklyn- Ryan’s military deployment to Vietnam begins in 1966 with shiftless excursions into women- booze- and reefer. As he wades ever deeper north- his cavorting is replaced by an unceasing violence. The amorality of war- and specifically this war- is laid bare. Eve Gilbert’s nakedly primitive drawing perfectly reflects Ryan’s own naivete- filled to the brim with acerbic commentary and pitch-black humor. Images overflow with blood and dissidence- dripping with rage for the injustice done to the young men made grist for the war machine. Ultimately- My Year in Vietnam is a story of triumph and humanity- of men rising against their country’s worst impulses. Ryan’s greatest act of resistance becomes his life- proving that the men who fought these wars can be more than weapons and fodder- but activists and paragons and fathers and grandfathers; thinking- feeling- beating hearts.
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MY YEAR IN VIETNAM TP
(W) GEORGE RYAN (A) EVE GILBERT (C) EVE GILBERT
FANTAGRAPHICS UNDERGROUND
StockID: 162480 SKU: 0925FU0763
Plucked from his workaday youth as an Irish-American kid from Brooklyn- Ryan’s military deployment to Vietnam begins in 1966 with shiftless excursions into women- booze- and reefer. As he wades ever deeper north- his cavorting is replaced by an unceasing violence. The amorality of war- and specifically this war- is laid bare. Eve Gilbert’s nakedly primitive drawing perfectly reflects Ryan’s own naivete- filled to the brim with acerbic commentary and pitch-black humor. Images overflow with blood and dissidence- dripping with rage for the injustice done to the young men made grist for the war machine. Ultimately- My Year in Vietnam is a story of triumph and humanity- of men rising against their country’s worst impulses. Ryan’s greatest act of resistance becomes his life- proving that the men who fought these wars can be more than weapons and fodder- but activists and paragons and fathers and grandfathers; thinking- feeling- beating hearts.
