![]() ![]() He was a perceptive listener, and in his hands even Cope’s memories about the invention of Kleenex can become reflections on a time of change: “I’d always used cloth handkerchiefs” before, Cope says. ![]() Guibert spent five years talking to Cope. It was a land of wool swimming suits, where a road might take you past rows of oil derricks or hillsides filled with the scent of orange blossoms. “How the World Was” tells the story of Cope’s youth in the less crowded, more hopeful Southern California. “How the World Was: A California Childhood” serves as a kind of prequel to “Alan’s War.” Like that earlier and critically acclaimed work, Guibert’s new book is the product of the French artist’s friendship with the late Alan Ingram Cope.īefore he was drafted into the Army in the wake of Pearl Harbor, Cope was a boy growing up in the San Gabriel Valley. ![]() “Alan’s War,” the memoir of a California GI’s service in World War II, was an epic that followed an earnest, food-obsessed and libido-driven troop of young men halfway around the globe. “The Photographer” told the story of a French medical mission into war-torn Afghanistan. ![]() Many of his books are based on long interviews with real subjects. The Parisian artist Emmanuel Guibert creates nonfiction graphic novels that have the emotional weight and patient observation of great prose fiction. ![]()
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