Graphic novels are. Great way for teenage minds to stay concentrated when reading and experience other mental images outside of mainstream television. Most are way out fantasy based books that fall in the Harry Potter category of absurdity but there are some history ones as well and as a former first see agent history buff and great comic critic I came across one from a publishing company that sent me a version through the mail. The graphic book called "Alan's War" can be found in most teenage areas of your local library and was a pretty good sell and a rare history category for this publishing style targeting young adults. Emmanuel Guibert drew all the pictures which are well-detailed based on the boring World War II memories of GI Alan Cope. 
I do say boring because everything that is in this book recollected from some soldier who cam to the front lines when the basic fighting was over in April 1945. I couldn't believe this shit when I was reading it and was expecting something way different like you know...a real war story. Perhaps they wanted to let readers know that alot of what occurred in World War II was idle time and time to gaze the beautiful countryside of Europe.these stories of how the soldiers had to take unconventional travel methods and had to do guard duty often sneaking out to the mountains makes for a boring read. Somehow this book managed to be three hundred pages and consists mainly of the people Alan recalled he ran into while moving about Europe. Teenagers will not get to appreciate any of the sacrifices World WR II veterans did fighting to free Europe from this book and all they will get from this book is that it was lame and that Alan Cope had t cope with dweebs all over Europe.. The drawings are cool and they deserve a much of a story line to fit the work of this artist. I like his drawing style and may just start using one similar for a war comic strip. A real one and not any of that dumb Beetle Baily shit.
I do say boring because everything that is in this book recollected from some soldier who cam to the front lines when the basic fighting was over in April 1945. I couldn't believe this shit when I was reading it and was expecting something way different like you know...a real war story. Perhaps they wanted to let readers know that alot of what occurred in World War II was idle time and time to gaze the beautiful countryside of Europe.these stories of how the soldiers had to take unconventional travel methods and had to do guard duty often sneaking out to the mountains makes for a boring read. Somehow this book managed to be three hundred pages and consists mainly of the people Alan recalled he ran into while moving about Europe. Teenagers will not get to appreciate any of the sacrifices World WR II veterans did fighting to free Europe from this book and all they will get from this book is that it was lame and that Alan Cope had t cope with dweebs all over Europe.. The drawings are cool and they deserve a much of a story line to fit the work of this artist. I like his drawing style and may just start using one similar for a war comic strip. A real one and not any of that dumb Beetle Baily shit. 
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