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Tom Lea: An Oral History Comic Strips are accompanied by interviews byIllustrator Tom Lea (1907 2001) lead a fascinating life. He traveled, painted WPA murals during the depression, and as a war correspondent he went to the South Pacific on an aircraft carrier and landed on Peleliu. He painted my favorite war painting "That Two Thousand Yard Stare" and one of the most grisly war images to be published in an American magazine "The Price." From the book flap: Born in 1907 in El Paso, Texas, Lea says he can't remember when