Tag Archive | "World War Two"

The dark past of a seminal cartoonist

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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For a few years now, rumours had been circulating about celebrated seminal Flemish cartoonist and comic artist Willy Vandersteen’s activities during World War II.  Comic historians discovered illustrations and cartoons in books and magazines published during German occupation time, which sympathised with the occupying forces or even presented a blatantly anti-Semitic sentiment.  The style of [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Little people on a world’s stage

Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Yes, this little post is once more about Pieter De Poortere and his anti-hero Boerke.  I know I tend to hammer on the same nail sometimes, but this time I have good reasons for it.  Not only is Pieter one of the best cartoonist in Europe today (and I’m choosing my words), and his Boerke [...]

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That Dunkirk spirit

Saturday, May 29, 2010

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As ceremonies take place to mark the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation and commemorate the astonishing bravery of so many, from the armed forces to the men on the famous ‘little boats’ who sailed into fire to ‘do their bit’, it seems like a a good time to look back to some of the [...]

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From our continental correspondent – stripping the Occupation

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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Dutch publisher Matrijs, which specialises in historical studies and materials, recently published a quite interesting and special book about the last year of the German occupation of Holland, called “Bezetting in Beeld” (The Occupation in Images).  From April, 1944 up and until the Liberation in May, 1945 (now exactly 65 years ago), Frans Brouwer, a [...]

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World War One and Two in easy comics form

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Angus McLeod has posted up two absolutely brilliant simple comics histories explaining the whole of World War One and World War Two in just a few minutes; a quick excerpt from 1914: I love the British Isles reaction to the German attack through Belgium “you wanker” and the donning of the war moustache is a [...]

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