Free Download Into the Jungle!: A Boy’s Comic Strip History of World War II (Cultures of Childhood) by Jimmy Kugler, Michael Kugler
English | January 27, 2023 | ISBN: 1496842820 | 250 pages | EPUB | 63 Mb
Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by "Frogs" and "Toads," humanoid creatures brutally committed to a kill-or-be-killed struggle. The history of American youth depends primarily on adult reminiscences of their own childhoods, adult testimony to the lives of youth around them, or surmises based on at best a few creative artifacts. The survival then of such a large collection of adolescent comic strips from America’s small-town Midwest is remarkable.