Cousin Joseph

By Jules Feiffer

Subjects: Police, Motion picture producers and directors, Union busting, Comics & graphic novels, crime & mystery, Noir fiction, New York Times bestseller, Comics & graphic novels, historical fiction, Detectives, Comic books, strips, nyt:hardcover-graphic-books=2016-08-14, Patriotism, New York Times reviewed, Graphic novels, Private investigators

Description: From inside front cover: Our story opens in Bay City in 1931 in the midst of the Great Depression. Big Sam sees himself as a righteous, truth-seeking patriot, defending the American way, as his Irish immigrant father would have wanted, against a rising tide of left-wing unionism, strikes, and disruption that plague his hometown. At the same time he makes monthly, secret overnight trips on behalf of Cousin Joseph, a mysterious man on the phone he has never laid eyes on, to pay off Hollywood producers to ensure that they will make only upbeat films that idealize a mythic America: no warts, no injustice uncorrected, only happy endings.