Jack Jackson's American History #[1]

Fantagraphics brings together two of Jack Jackson's landmark works of historical comics journalism — Los Tejanos and Lost Cause — in this handsome 2012 volume. Jackson's cover art sets the tone perfectly: a sweeping birds-eye illustration of a vast frontier landscape, with a great mass of figures moving across the Texas plains beneath a red silhouette of the Lone Star State. It's a fitting introduction to the kind of meticulously rendered, deeply researched American history that made Jackson one of the most distinctive voices in the medium.