![]() In A Sort of a Saga, his family lives in eccentric but genteel poverty, managing to get along in Depression era America as Bill's pop, Sidney, Sr., goes from one career (or "projects" as he called them) to another, selling wrenches, homesteading citrus, mining for gold, and finally building WPA outhouses. ![]() Even so, Bill's books, like all autobiographies, should not be taken too literally. So it's all the more sad that so few people have read this masterpiece of Americana.įortunately, his memoirs of his time in the army, The Brass Ring, found a wider audience and was a best seller when published in 1972. ![]() Of course with his drawings being an integral part of all of his books, Bill had the decided edge on most mere authors. His book about his childhood in New Mexico and Arizona, A Sort of a Saga, is funny, well-written, and as good (or should we say better?) than anything Steinbeck or Twain put on paper. But it's an indisputable fact that the humor of Willie and Joe is as funny today as it was in 1943, and the predicaments of the two GI dogfaces making the best out of a bad situation is something that can be appreciated by anyone.īut what is not known even by many who do remember Bill and his creations is that he was one of America's greatest writers. The Greatest Generation would naturally produce the Greatest Cartoonist. ![]()
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