series: Kings in Disguise

In this unusual graphic novel, writer James Vance and artist Dan Burr follow the cross-country adventures of a 12-year-old boy in search of his father during the Depression of the 1930s.  Along the way, Freddie Bloch encounters people who help him--and those who would harm him. Het gets caught in a labor riot, and becomes part of a radical survivalist commune. He witnesses brutality and common deecency, meets madmen and saints. All the while, he and a strange hobo who calls himself the King of Spain search for home--that luminous, idealized place where one belongs...