Fantagraphics is happy to announce that Floating World Comics in Portland, OR will helping us celebrate the release of Cartoons for Victory with a signing and presentation with editor Warren Bernard.

When over 16 million Americans served in some capacity during the Second World War, life in the U.S. was unarguably changed. War efforts across the country upended social norms and deeply impacted the media in all of its forms. Cartoonists and their creations were unable to escape editorializing the battle as prominent characters like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse were drawn fighting the axis through television shows, strips, and comic books. Shown through inexhaustible research by editor Warren Bernard, Cartoons for Victory is the most comprehensive anthology of WWII cartoons and comics ever collected. Featuring works by Charles Addams, Harold Gray, and Harvey Kurtzman that haven’t been seen since their original publication. Editor Bernard gathered them over years of unstinting research through private collections and the obscure holdings of public sources. The importance of this work to modern American history is undeniable, and now collected for the first time in Cartoons for Victory.

WHO: Warren Bernard
WHAT: Cartoons For Victory release party
WHEN: October 8th, 5-7pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St

Warren Bernard is Executive Director of the Small Press Expo (SPX) independent sequential art festival, and is a comics-focused writer and historian. He co-authored the Eisner Award-nominated book Drawing Power, and has extensively researched and written about the 1950s Juvenile Delinquency / Senate Comic Book Hearings. A contributor to more than a dozen books, he often provides rare materials from his own extensive collection. Both the Library of Congress and The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) have hosted his lectures. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.