Joe's Air Force (Episodes)

Language options: English, ( French and Spanish by request)

By: Pepe Moreno, 1986

Title: "Joe's Air Force" (Serialized Stories and Graphic Novel), Special USA (Albin Michel Février, 1986, France). Other publishers include 1984, Totain (Spain), L’Eternauta (Italy), and a few others. 

Joe's Air Force and World War II, above everything else, is one of my favorite aesthetics to draw and tell stories about. Despite being a horrific time in human history, playing soldiers as a kid was to me what playing cowboys and Indians was to others. The aesthetics of design driven by lethal necessity is extraordinary and fascinating in and of itself. I've always been fascinated by the machines of war, especially aircraft and tanks. While I can't often indulge myself in drawing these things, I know I could create something cool and special if given the chance. "Joe's Air Force" was a passion project where I got to draw what I loved, knowing it might be the last time... or maybe not?  The violence and sexual simplicity were basic entry requirements for readers in Europe, especially in France, at the time.