Nella vita, Willie…
come nell'arte…
è una questione
di prospettiva!
(pagina 181)

La vita è un viaggio
da qua
a là!
(pagina 200) ( )

The artist/author’s introduction describes this as “a thinly-disguised autobiography.” On a troop train in 1942, draftee Will spends the journey looking backward on his life and his parents’ journey to America. Will encountered a lot of prejudice as the son of Jewish immigrant parents. Eisner used his talent as a graphic artist to reveal the damage that prejudice does to those who cultivate it as well as to those on the receiving end. ( )

Eisner tells the story of his family's experiences as Jewish immigrants living in the U.S. during the outbreak of WWII. Eisner gives his impression of the irony of the anti-Semitic discrimination they suffered in the U.S. even as America engaged in war against Nazi fascism.
The story is told as a series of flashbacks told by a Jewish-American soldier deployed during WWII.

Eisner's graphic novel about his childhood and adolescene in the suburbs of New York as he remembers it on the eve of America enterin WWII. ( )

This is Will Eisner's autobiography, in graphic novel form, mostly focusing on the anti-semitism Eisner faced as a young Jew growing up in New York City as World War II approached. Eisner is a master of the medium, and this is a quite moving portrayal of the struggles he and his family faced. ( )