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Bootblack / Mikaël ; translation by Matt Maden [sic].
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mikaël, 1974- author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Shoe shiners--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Shoe shiners.
- Soldiers--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Soldiers.
- German Americans--Comic books, strips, etc.
- German Americans.
- New York (N.Y.)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Comic books, strips, etc--France--Translations into English.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- France.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Graphic novels.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels
- Historical comics
- Translations
- Historical comics.
- Physical Description:
- 119 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : NBM Graphic Novels, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the French.
- Summary:
- "On the German front, in the spring of 1945: the war leaves only death and destruction in its wake. To escape the horror of the present, Al, an American soldier, the only survivor of his unit, immerses himself in the memories of his New York life. Son of German immigrants, born in the United States, he was not yet ten years old when, in one night, under the approving eyes of anti-immigrant Americans, he lost his parents and his home in a terrible fire. Turning his back on his origins, Al has no choice but to live on the streets; he becomes a Bootblack, a shoe shiner. With his friend Shiny, they somehow manage to survive by sticking together. Six years later, in 1935, they meet Buster and the ambitious Diddle Joe. And then there's Maggie, the girl Al is in love with and whose esteem he ardently longs for. And this, even as she makes it clear to him that they do not live in the same world. New York offers no future for the poor, Al understood that. He is therefore determined to earn more money, whatever the means. But he does not imagine, at that point, that the war which threatens will soon give him an appointment with his past..."--Amazon.com.
- Credits:
- Translation by Matt Mad[d]en ; lettering by Cromatik Ltd.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in French as Bootblack vol. 1 & 2.
- "For mature readers."
- Local Notes:
- Comics 491 : Purchased for the Penn Libraries from Jessica Abel and Matt Madden in 2026.
- ISBN:
- 9781681122960
- 1681122960
- OCLC:
- 1285274059
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