Yossel
by Joe Kubert
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The sketches of Yossel, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy confined to the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during World War II, capture the suffering of his family, the hardships and cruelties of the ghetto, the increasingly harsh treatment of the Nazis, and the events of the 1943 uprising.Tags
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Kubert keeps his sketches in this graphic novel very rough. They are right off the sketch pad in order to maintain the emotion of the moment; no color, no refinement. Simply flipping through the pages brings on the emotion of the tragedy, but including the story makes “Yossel” a strong book indeed.
Fifteen year Yossel, lives in Nazi-occupied Poland, and must move with his family to the Warsaw Ghetto. Yossel is an artist, and draws vivid descriptions of what happens in the ghetto. His family is taken out of the ghetto to the labor camps, and Yossel gets involved with the Jewish resistance in the ghetto.
Komiks został napisany i narysowany przez znakomitego amerykańskiego komiksiarza, Joe Kuberta, który ma żydowsko-polskie korzenie. Kubert nadał mu formę fikcyjnego, rysowanego pamiętnika. Opowiada, co stałoby się z nim i jego rodziną, gdyby w końcu lat 20. nie udało się im wyemigrować do Ameryki.
To niewątpliwe arcydzieło powstało na podstawie opowieści rodziców autora, przeczytanych książek, listów ocalałych krewnych, a także dostępnych danych historycznych. To opowieść o triumfie człowieczeństwa – o tym, jak ludzie pozbawieni wszystkiego wznoszą się ponad upodlenie i w ostatecznym akcie oporu zwracają się przeciwko swym ciemiężycielom, wzniecając powstanie w warszawskim getcie.
To niewątpliwe arcydzieło powstało na podstawie opowieści rodziców autora, przeczytanych książek, listów ocalałych krewnych, a także dostępnych danych historycznych. To opowieść o triumfie człowieczeństwa – o tym, jak ludzie pozbawieni wszystkiego wznoszą się ponad upodlenie i w ostatecznym akcie oporu zwracają się przeciwko swym ciemiężycielom, wzniecając powstanie w warszawskim getcie.
Nov 13, 2011Polish
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Joseph Kubert was born on September 18, 1926 in the shtetl of Yzeran, Poland. He came to the United States with his family as an infant and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. At 11 or 12, he landed an after-school job as an office boy for a comic-book publisher. By the time he was a teenager, he had worked sweeping up, erasing, inking and show more eventually drawing comic books. The first comic he illustrated himself, Volton, was published when he was 16. After graduating from the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, he served stateside in the Army before becoming a full-time artist. He was most closely associated with DC, for whom he drew Sgt. Rock, a World War II infantryman he created with the writer Robert Kanigher, and Hawkman, an airborne crime fighter. He also created Tor, a prehistoric hero, and, with Kanigher, Enemy Ace, whose antihero is a German pilot. He was also considered one of the definitive interpreters of Tarzan. In the early 1950s he helped develop the methods of drawing and reproduction that made possible the 3-D comic book. From 1967 to 1976, he was DC's director of publications. He wrote and illustrated several graphic novels including Fax from Sarajevo, Yossel, Jew Gangster, and Dong Xoai. He also illustrated the mid-1960s newspaper comic strip Tales of the Green Beret and a comic strip The Adventures of Yaakov and Yosef for the children's magazine The Moshiach Times. In 1976, he founded the Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey, the country's only accredited trade school for comic-book artists, where he helped train a generation of young colleagues. He died of multiple myeloma on August 12, 2012 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Yossel
- Original publication date
- 2003
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- The things I saw scorched my eyes and pulled my pencil to paper. I had to draw them. But, I did not show these sketches to the soldiers. These sketches would not please them...
...The deep lines etched on their face... (show all)s was testimony to the awful pressures under which they existed. One foot in hell and the other in quicksand.
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- Graphic Novels & Comics, Teen
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- 741.5 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
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- PN6727 .K77 .Y67 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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