Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story

([February] 2009)

[Cover Flaps] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[Front Matter] (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 9 pages (report information)

Letters

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Indexer Notes

Inside front cover is blank, followed by two blank pages, half-title page with blank verso, title page with indicia on verso, and another half-title page with blank verso.

Waltz with Bashir (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 117 pages (report information)

Script

Ari Folman; Riva Hocherman (translation)

Pencils

David Polonsky (see notes); Asaf Hanuka; Michael Faust; Tomer Hanuka; Yaara Buchman; Robin Moyer (photos)

Inks

David Polonsky (see notes); Asaf Hanuka; Michael Faust; Tomer Hanuka; Yaara Buchman; Robin Moyer (photos)

Colors

David Polonsky (see notes); Asaf Hanuka; Michael Faust; Tomer Hanuka; Yaara Buchman; Robin Moyer (photos)

Letters

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Genre

war; history; biography

Synopsis

Ari, who fought in the 1982 war in Lebanon, is told by an old friend of a haunting dream evoking those days. The experience prompts him to speak to other former soldiers and psychologists in hopes of both understanding and filling in the large gaps in his memory of fighting in Beirut and of the infamous massacre in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

Reprints

• in Wals met Bashir (De Vliegende Hollander, 2009 series) (2009)
• in Waltz with Bashir (Atrium Verlag, 2009 series) (2009)

Indexer Notes

Credits on cover simply read "Ari Folman and David Polonsky". Folman is the writer, director, and producer of the film from which the text and illustrations are taken; Polonsky served as art director and chief illustrator. Acknowledgements in the book thank Yoni Goodman, the film's storyboard artist, saying "the illustrations here took their cue from his essential work". A. Hanuka, Faust, T. Hanuka, and Buchman are thanked in that order as those members of the eight-person illustration team "whose drawings are included in this book". Polonsky spoke about editor Hocherman's acquisition of the book for Metropolitan, as well as some distribution of artistic labor, in a Publisher's Weekly interview posted online 13 January 2009; Hocherman is credited with the book's translation from Hebrew at the Words without Borders website (both pages accessed by indexer 25 August 2009).

[Back Matter] (Table of Contents: 4)

credits, title page / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Ari Folman; David Polonsky

Letters

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Indexer Notes

Story is followed by blank verso page, Acknowledgments page, About the Authors page, and blank inside back cover.

[Back Cover] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

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