Tag Archive | "war"

When the comics went to war

Friday, January 7, 2011

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Good chum of the blog Alex Fitch alerts us to an upcoming comics conference this summer which he is helping to curate. It’s called Comics and Conflict and the irreplaceable Paul Gravett has just posted up the first details of it on his site. From the description: “The Comics & Conflicts Conference is aimed at [...]

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Never forget

Thursday, November 11, 2010

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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the end of the War to End All Wars. If only it had been. (Charley’s War by the great team of Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun) “The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.”

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Tardi: J’Accuse – It Was the War of the Trenches

Monday, May 10, 2010

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It Was the War of the Trenches By Jacques Tardi Published by Fantagraphics I’ve been pretty delighted to see the crew at Fantagraphics translating and publishing some of the excellent work of acclaimed French BD artist Jaques Tardi over the last year or so (with more to come), but I’ve been especially keen to read [...]

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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month…

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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(pets among the trenches by Stanley L Wood, from ‘the war to end all wars’) “If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at [...]

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Ken MacLeod interviewed

Friday, July 17, 2009

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On the SF Crowsnest Ewan Angus talks to one of my very favourite writers of contemporary science fiction, Ken MacLeod, about his latest novel, the fascinating Night Sessions, which combines an SF take on the post 9-11 world and War on Terror with the classic Edinburgh detective novel and a look at religious fundamentalism (no, [...]

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