Go, Buy: Your Shopping Bargain Of The Day

This site isn't one to stress a lot of sales without some sort of activist/publishing news hook involved, but Alan Gardner of Daily Cartoonist noticed today that Willie & Joe: Back Home has seen its original price point pulverized on Amazon.com all the way down to six bucks.

That is a remarkable book, handsomely mounted in a way that's probably worth $6 if you wanted to gut the contents and use the cover on something else. I talked to editor Todd DePastino here. I think this is maybe the most amazing work ever to appear on a newspaper comics page. It's good to great comics, for sure: Mauldin was funny, and mean, and drew well. More importantly, however, Willie & Joe: Back Home is an important historical document whereby we get to stand witness to Mauldin eschewing what could have been a lifetime's worth of high-fives from grateful soldiers and their families, instead taking this major wealth-making opportunity of a comics feature of that day and using it to repeatedly head-butt the holy shit out of what he saw as a sick, post-War America. It's practically demented and wholly admirable. In terms of money left on the table, Mauldin's Back Home work may be the greatest act of creative self-immolation comics has ever seen, and for that reason the book is a jaw-dropper for twice its original price. That it's available for God knows how long for the same amount of money as one and a half of this week's 20-page superhero comics? Come on.
 
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