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Article: The Life of Pope John Paul II in Comics!(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
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- The Bookwatch
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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The Life of Pope John Paul II ... in Comics!
Alessandro Mainardi, author; Werner Maresta, artist; Federico
Pietrobon, colorist Papercutz
c/o Holtzbrinck Publishers (dist.)
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
1597070394 $16.95 www.papercutz.com 1-888-330-8477
The Life of Pope John Paul II... in Comics! is a full-color, graphic novel biography of Karol Wojtyla, a pious youth of Poland who matured to become Pope of the Catholic Church and accept the name of his predecessor John Paul out of veneration. Wojtyla's path was a hard one, enduring the loss of his mother at a young age, followed by the oppression of the Nazi ...