While the art is in black-and-white, it has a grainy texture that lends a news-journal like touch to the tale. While Takei has co-written his memoir with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott, it’s the artwork by Harmony Becker which really breathes life to a painful chapter of Japanese-American history. And Takei couldn’t have picked a better format to tell his and his family’s story.
Spread over 200 pages, ‘They Called Us Enemy’ tells an important chapter of World War II that one won’t find in History text books. For example, little Takei thought it would be an adventure to sleep in stinky horse stalls, only his parents knew the humiliation of living in a space still soiled with the smell of manure. The anger against the Japanese had to be directed somewhere, and politicians knew just who.īetter known to Star Trek fans as Hikaru Sulu, Takei was only a child in the 1940s, so his recollection of his time behind barbed wires are innocent. His family members were among the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were evicted from their homes and forced to live in camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. George Takei in his graphic novel memoir talks about his experiences at an internment camp as a young boy.
Whenever there is war, a terrible number of innocents always suffer, but few expect to be incarcerated by their own country for political brownie points.
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