Le nouveau sac triste de George Baker, bande dessinée vintage, livre des années 1940, humour officiel militaire

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Vintage copy of Sergeant George Bakers The New Sad Sack. Simon and Schuster Publishing. 1946. This is a moving, and fascinating comic book into the thoughts and common circumstances of the average Army Private based in the late 1930s and early 1940s (although in the authors own words, the Army remains basically the same and the consistent inconsistencies of the system would be acceptation and understood bu G.I.s anywhere). Baker began "The Sad Sake series during his time in the Army, into which he was drafted after serving a short time working for Walt Disney in the 1930s where he was a part of productions such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi. 

Baker chose to create The Sad Sack in a time where "civilian ignorance of the Army was appalling." He aimed to refute the ads that soldiers were always bright and cheerful and instead created one he felt was more real and authentic. "The underlying story of The Sad Sack is his own struggle with the Army in which the author tried to symbolize the sum total of the difficulties and frustrations of all enlisted men"

Admittedly, I dont get all the illustrations. Im not from the 40s, nor have I ever been a soldier. But this book gave me both goosebumps and chuckles while reading it. 

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