This week’s digital releases include the English translation of The Eternaut and Carol Tyler’s Soldier’s Heart. That’s a lot to be thankful for!
Fantagraphics is proud to present, for the first time in English, a graphic novel so powerful its main character’s image has become a potent symbol of the endless struggle against oppression — The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López.
This seminal Argentine science fiction graphic novel was originally released as a serial strip from 1957–59. Juan Salvo, its inimitable protagonist, along with his friend Professor Favalli and the tenacious metalworker Franco, face what appears to be a nuclear accident, but quickly turns out to be something much bigger than they imagined. Cold War tensions, aliens, space, and time travel can all be yours through comiXology or Google Play.
Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father — A Daughter’s Memoir is Carol Tyler’s sophisticated graphic masterpiece about the damaging effects of war on soldiers and the toll it can take on their families.
Many soldiers return from war and never discuss it. Thus was the case with S/Sgt. Charles W. Tyler, a member of the “Greatest Generation” and someone who didn’t open up to his daughter until later in life. He was never wounded in combat, but as Tyler states, “Not all scars are visible.” In this magnificent achievement, Tyler overlays her father’s memories with her own, while struggling to understand her troubled life. Literate, emotionally engaging, and historically accurate, Soldier’s Heart can be yours though comiXology or Google Play.