Frank Johnson, Secret Pioneer of American Comics Vol. 1: Wally's Gang Early Years (1928-1949) and The Bowser Boys (1946-1950) comic strips Together they would build something

Together they would build something deemed impossible: a modern utopia in the wilderness — but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousin's wife

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claustrophobic feel of the graphic novel

thrill-seeking vegetation

Frank Johnson, Secret Pioneer of American Comics Vol. 1: Wally's Gang Early Years (1928-1949) and The Bowser Boys (1946-1950) comic strips Together they would build somethingAn astonishing historical and artistic discovery: a 2300 page proto graphic novel begun by a weekend cartoonist in 1928 and continuing over the next 50 years! When Frank Johnson, an itinerant musician and shipping clerk, died in 1979, he left behind a startling discovery: more than 2,300 notebook pages of comics and 131 unbound drawings, among them a massive, continuous story line beginning in the earliest surviving notebook dated 1928 before the