Snapdragon is an artifact of that time, told not by a man reminiscing in his twilight years, but by a young soldier fresh from the battlefields.
The combat photography and wartime experiences of Phil "Snapdragon" Stern, an iconic photographer of JFK, Marilyn Monroe, and James Dean, published for the first time and beautifully presented.
Kat Leyh's Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town’s witch and discovers the strange magic within herself.
Phil Stern bounded up the hill. Grinning, he carried the booty of war in the form of a German Leica camera dangling from a neck strap and a bulky canvas bag crammed with rolls of captured film slung over a shoulder.
"Snap's town had a witch.