Friday, November 1, 2013

Camp Agua Dulce, internment camp for Japanese Americans

Camp Agua Dulce, internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War 2 (based upon the Manzanar Camp, California). This is from "Gaijin: American Prisoner of War" a graphic novel written and illus.d by me, publ.d by Disney/Hyperion. 10,000 Americans were held here- two thirds were children. 
Tar paper shacks in the desert. 
Water color, gouache, 2013.

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