C’est la Guerre: Madaya Mom
Done right, graphic journalism and historiography can be an extraordinarily powerful means of getting to the truth about events, as it is in Joe Sacco’s Palestine, or Joe Kubert’s Fax from Sarajevo, or...
C’est la Guerre: Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63
Such a Lovely Little War is a remarkable graphic novel that engages both heart and head, and Truong’s artwork provides an abstracted realism that perfectly reinforces both the viewpoint of a six year-old,...
C’est la Guerre: Post-War Comics
Over the past 60 years the kinds of wars fought by the United States and its allies have changed dramatically. After a brief period of major combat operations, modern conflicts too often devolve into an...
C’est la Guerre – USS STEVENS: THE COLLECTED STORIES
Cover of USS Stevens: The Collected Stories, art by Sam Glanzman. Sam Glanzman’s USS Stevens: The Collected Stories (Dover Publications, 2016) is more than a collection of some of the finest naval war...
C’est la Guerre: David Lavery, 1949 – 2016
Dr. David Lavery, chairing a panel at SCW5 in Vancouver, BC, 2014. Dr. David Lavery, Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Studies at Middle Tennessee State University died Tuesday...
C’est la Guerre – Garth Ennis Presents: Battle Classics, Volume 2
Cover of Titan Comics' Battle Classics, Volume 2. Art by Cam Kennedy. Titan Comics is on a mission. Fortunately, part of that mission is reprinting the greatest comics from the British war comics magazine...
C’est la Guerre: Black Cat Comics in Salt Lake City
Black Cat Comics. This all began as a clever attempt to combine business with pleasure. I was vacationing in Utah, and knew that this column was due the day after I got back home. A little research...
C’est la Guerre – Johnny Red, Vol. 4: The Flying Gun
Cover for Johnny Red, Vol.4: The Flying Gun art by John Cooper. In 2004, Titan Books began collecting and reprinting British war comics of the late 1970s and early ‘80s from Battle Pictures Weekly comic...
C’est la Guerre – Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars
Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars. Art by Greg Ruth Previews Magazine is pretty much a permanent part of my pull list. There are a few reasons for this, not least of which is the sheer Sears...
C’est la Guerre – The Punisher: Born
Generally speaking this correspondent doesn’t get to write about mainstream superheroes. For all of the fighting the capes and tights crowd does (and all of their wars, both secret and civil), most of the...