'SIMON SAYS' COMIC TELLS THE TRUE STORY OF WORLD’S GREATEST NAZI HUNTER

   There are plenty of comics about fictional heroic types of every stripe, but certainly not enough about the real superheroes of history. Hopefully that’s about to change. Probably many of you out there reading this have heard the words “The Simon Wiesenthal Center ” at one point or another on the news without really knowing who Wiesenthal actually was. Wiesenthal was an artist who was also one of the world’s most famous Nazi hunters, and who brought many war criminals to justice. Now two comic book creators named Andre Frattino and Jesse Lee are looking for help viaKickstarter to bring Wiesenthal’s fascinating story to life in a new graphic novel calledSimon Says.

      Simon Wiesenthal was an architect from Austria who survived the Holocaust, mostly thanks to his artistic ability. Because he was he was employed to paint swastikas on train cars by the Nazis, he escaped execution during the war. After World War II ended in 1945, he  he and his wife found out that they had lost over eighty members of their family in the concentration camps. Wiesenthal then dedicated the rest of his life to hunting down notorious war criminals who were part of Hitler’s forces.

Source: Nerdist