Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend

written and illustrated by Noah Van Sciver, with additional stories and art by Marlena Myles, introduction by Lee Francis IV , postscript by Deondre Smiles

Did you know that a mainstay of American folk culture was in fact created as an advertising ploy?Few people realize that Paul Bunyan, the legendary lumberjack, and his blue ox are the product of corporate marketing by a highly industrialized commercial enterprise.Cartoonist NOAH VAN SCIVER shows us the myth creation as real…