Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States of America. Often regarded as one of the first progressive presidents, Roosevelt lived an interesting life as a cowboy, police commissioner for New York City, Assistant Secretary of the US Navy, Colonel in the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, Governor of New York, and Vice… Read more

From one of those lucky coincidences that social media sadly only rarely supplies I’ve been chatting to Allan Harvey and watching some of his comic page restoration process. He has a seemingly magical ability to transform a browning and tatty looking page into something fresh off the newsstand. (I am now in the process of… Read more

Mr Luckinbill is an important actor, who’s known for his one man stage productions featuring looks at LBJ, Ernest Hemmingway Clarence Darrow and Teddy Rooseveldt. Dead Reckoning Books has had him adapt his Teddy play into an original graphic novel with artist Eryck Tate. We discuss the book, plus get into his acting career. From… Read more

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) is ranked among the top U.S. presidents. Reasons for this include decisiveness, activism, and leadership. For even a casual observer, many people will easily recognize the hearty Teddy cheerful command: “Bully!” For me, as a precocious kid interested in history and politics, I instantly gravitated to the Roosevelts, and the two iconic… Read more

Laurence Luckinbill is an actor, playwright and director best know for his one-man plays in which he portrayed President Theodore Roosevelt, Clarence Darrow, Ernest Hemingway and President Lyndon Johnson. Laurence is best known by science fiction fans as Spock’s half-brother Sybok in the motion picture Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). Laurence’s first graphic… Read more

I’ve been a fan of Garth Ennis for a while, and while I definitely enjoy his classics such as Preacher or The Boys, I have grown very fond of his lesser-known military-themed books ever since I did a promotion a while back and inquired a whole slew of Battlefields books. When I saw that this… Read more

If you read last week’s post, you know I’m doing a countdown of the most Gotham Calling books of 2020. Enjoy! Collected as Undone by Blood or The Shadow of a Wanted Man, the first arc of this kickass neo-western hits the ground running. It basically alternates between a classic western yarn about a retired… Read more

Gil’s graphic novel provides a detailed look at a massive World War II operation, from the planning and logistics to the blood and guts required to see it through. British spy John Hewson has gathered crucial intelligence that could help turn the tide of the war, but delivering it from behind enemy lines won’t be… Read more

Teddy Roosevelt roars, fumes, and looks back on his life and family in this graphic version of Luckinbill’s one-man stage show Teddy Tonight. Though the background dissolves at need into various historical scenes, it’s the performance that Tait portrays here, depicting in his black, white, and slate-blue panels a Roosevelt who looks like Luckinbill in… Read more

Teddy Roosevelt is one of those Presidents that comes to mind when one thinks about the great orators that we have had in the past in that very office. I won’t get too political here, but recent events in the political world make me look back at old speeches and feel some weird sense of… Read more