Morgan Weistling
Apr 21, 2020
3 minutes
—Mark Bedor
Weistling was on a bombing mission over Europe during World War II when his plane was shot down. Facing near-starvation in a German prisoner of war camp, the captured artist found an escape by creating a comic strip. Simply titled , it was drawn on the white inside of cigarette packages, the thin pages bound and preserved between a pair of flattened tin cans. Every new addition was passed around the camp, providing priceless entertainment to his fellow POWs. Then one day, the German guards vanished, Russian soldiers appeared, and
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