Tag Archive | "war"

War, what is it good for?

Thursday, May 3, 2012

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A classic cartoon by Syd Hoff (under the pen name A.R.) for the Daily Worker on the relative cost of war for those who actually go to fight for their country and those who do rather well supplying the equipment playing patriot games from the safety of the boardroom. War, what is it good for? [...]

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Pat Mills on Comics & Conflict podcast

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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Pat Mills points us to a podcast recording of the talk he had with Grant Rogers at the Comics & Conflicts events last summer in the Imperial War Museum, organised by Alex Fitch, Paul Gravett and Ariel Khan, now online so those of us who couldn’t be there can get a listen.

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Where I last saw Charley

Friday, November 11, 2011

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The day the guns fell silent; the old soldiers slowly fade away, but we remember. Not every war tale involves derring-do of single-handed charges against the enemy, spitting bullets for King and Country, some performed heroism through the dangerous act of carrying their wounded fellows from the battle. Many became casualties themselves saving their comrades. [...]

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Alex’s audio round up

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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This week Alex’s audio round up dovetails rather nicely with the series Richard has been running all week here on the blog (see here if you missed any of it so far) on the fascinating anthology from Sean Duffield edited War: the Human Cost. As ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and [...]

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Garth Ennis gets Stitched

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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Stitched Written and Directed by Garth Ennis A war story with an element of horror, set in modern day Afghanistan and written by Garth Ennis, its perfect fare and would be a comic book title to pick up. Yet here it is not a comic, for Ennis has turned his story into a screenplay and [...]

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Comics and Conflict

Friday, August 12, 2011

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Alex Fitch reminds us of the upcoming Comics and Conflict conference which is being held in the Imperial War Museum on August 19th and 20th, which will include panel discussion, workshops and a film screening, as well as boasting some impressive guests such as Pat Mills, Roger Sabin and Garth Ennis among others.

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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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