I mentioned two graphic novels that touched on similar themes as The Overwhelming. Just wanted to drop them on here, in case you were interested in checking them out....
NOTES FOR A WAR STORY (2007)
by GIPI
War changes everything.When war comes, it doesn’t just change your food, your clothes, and your home. It changes your beliefs, your dreams, and your understanding of the world. Swept up in a war he never thought would happen, Giuliano begins to question what he’s fighting for—if he’s even fighting for anything.
Gipi’s pencil and watercolor art is forceful, realistic, and evocative—the ideal medium for this important and honest graphic novel.
MAUS (written from 1973 t0 final publication in 1991)
by art spiegelman
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust "(The Wall Street Journal). The first volume introduces readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and history itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. Tragic and comic by turns, it attains a new complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium.
~eric
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