Welcome back for the second and final installment of my look at some of the best of last year’s releases. Let’s not mince words and get right to it, shall we?
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The 2010 Eisner Wards have recently been announced and my favorite publisher, Fantagraphics, has been honored with a record 18 nominations. Of these I would like to draw attention to one particular nominee that I feel deserves special recognition: You’ll Never Know Book One: A Good and Decent Man by Carol Tyler. Included in the Eisner category “Best Painter/Multi-Media Artist” You’ll Never Know is Tyler’s auto-biographical graphic novel (the first of a proposed trilogy) detailing her attempt to understand the personal history of her father and how it shaped him into the man he is. Of these experiences, those she is the most curious about are also the ones of which he has always been tight-lipped: his time served overseas in the Army during World War II.
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