Carol Tyler signs YOU'LL NEVER KNOW with her father in Cincinnati on June 13

Shake It Records will be hosting a book signing with local artist C. Tyler for her new graphic memoir, You’ll Never Know, Book One: A Good and Decent Man from Fantagraphics Books.  And, as an added rare bonus, her father, 90 year old World War II veteran Chuck Tyler - subject of the book - will also be there to sign copies. A Cincinnati Exclusive.

You’ll Never Know Book One: A Good and Decent Man is published by Fantagraphics of Seattle. It tells the story of the 50-something author’s relationship with her World War II veteran father, and how his war experience shaped her childhood and affected her relationships in adulthood. “You’ll Never Know” refers not only to the title of her parents’ courtship song from that era, but also to the many challenges the author encountered in uncovering the difficult and painful truths about her Dad’s service.

You’ll Never Know makes full use of Tyler’s virtuosity as a cartoonist: stunningly rendered in detailed inks and subtle watercolors, it plunges the reader headlong into the diverse locales: her father's wartime experiences and courtship, her own childhood and adolescence, and contemporary life.

C. Tyler is an accomplished artist who has been drawing comics for over thirty years. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and has two other solo books, Late Bloomer and The Job Thing, also by Fantagraphics. She teaches a class in comics at the University of Cincinnati’s DAAP School of Art.

“If you want to find out what happened to Willie and Joe after they got home from World War II, You’ll Never Know is the perfect place to start. C. Tyler’s graphic novel, passionately conceived and brilliantly drawn, extends the range of Bill Mauldin to cover the aftershock of the Last Good War on the warriors who fought it and the collateral damage to their families. Not since Catch-22 has anyone probed the secret heart of the Greatest Generation with this kind of raw, icon busting courage.” -Tom Mathews (Our Fathers’ War: Growing Up in the Shadow of the Greatest Generation)

“One of the true greats of the ‘underground’ generation.”   -Chris Ware

“Her work has the extremely rare quality of genuine, authentic heart.”  -R. Crumb

“You’ll Never Know” Dad & Daughter Book Signing with Carol & Chuck Tyler
Saturday, June 13, 2009
5 – 7 PM
FREE!
Shake It Records
4156 Hamilton Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45223
(513) 591-0123

"You'll Never Know" book cover image