Tom Hanks wrote a novel about making a comic book movie

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The book is Tom Hanks' first novel and first literary work inspired by his Hollywood career

is sort of a multi-generational epic about American life during and after World War II , with one section focusing on a soldier returning home from the war in 1947, another section focusing on his nephew who was inspired to write the soldier into a comic book in the ‘70s, then a third section about a director in the present day who finds the comic book and decides to make it into a movie.

is Hanks’ second book and first novel. The new book will be available in May of next year, and you can see an image of the cover—which isn’t super thrilling, to be honest—

 

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And the fabulous RSikoryak illustrated the accompanying comics (to be published next year)!

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