But Ben Towle (Oyster War, Midnight Sun) has just announced that his next book will come out through that imprint. It’s called Four Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat, and that subject is one I definitely want to read about.   From hauling munitions to finding mines, and even being captured by the enemy and traded… Read more

A U.S. Military medic cuts to the bone in a graphic memoir that takes full benefit of the shape. This guide, a part of the launch of a graphic imprint by the Naval Institute Press, provides a vivid, terrifying, and sometimes stunning illumination of 1 man’s cathartic expertise in Afghanistan. “This place eats individuals.” That’s… Read more

‘The ‘Stan’ Is a Collection of Short Comics About a Long War: The fighting might never stop. There was a time, around 2013 or so, that I secretly worried that the Afghanistan war might end. Yeah, that’s an odd concern for a political liberal and self-avowed pacifist. One who, to boot, had by that time… Read more

The American involvement in Afghanistan has been documented in many ways but this book, a collection of short stories, re-told by two journalists, Kevin Knodell and David Axe, is unusual in that they are in ‘comic strip’ form. There are 17 individual stories, each one quite short but they are all interesting and brought to… Read more

Here’s some recently published titles I’ve my hands on that have caught my eye. Certainly I’ve not read them all. Some I’m digging into, but consider this more of an announcement. The Best of Don Winslow of the Navy is an oversize hardcover presenting full-length examples of the comic strip of the 1930s and ‘40s…. Read more

There’s a certain power that comes with storytelling, for both storytellers and audiences, regardless of whether the story unfolds around a campfire, in the pages of a book, or on a canvas. And when stories are told through multiple artistic media, magic happens: tellers feel catharsis, audiences experience empathy and dialogue blossoms about issues often… Read more

What a monstrous dream Ian Densford has conceived. His new graphic novel, Trench Dogs (which originally ran on on the Comics Workbook Tumblr in a different incarnation), left me sitting and blinking and thinking about what I’d read in quiet contemplation. The book is a series of alternating accounts of World War I told as… Read more

We took a long, hard look at the season’s offerings from independent and university presses, and, after consulting with PW’s reviews editors and booksellers, came up with a list of 20 books that readers won’t want to miss. Machete Squad Brent Dulak et al. (Sept., $18.95, trade paper) First printing: 7,500 Publicity & marketing plans:… Read more

‘Ahead of the launch of its first quartet of releases, Dead Reckoning, the new graphic novel imprint of The Naval Institute Press, has announced two new projects. Jeff McComsey (Son of Hitler, Mother Russia) will create a graphic novel biography of U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler. During his storied career, Butler participated in… Read more

Dead Reckoning launches in September and is already announcing new graphic novels being added to its line-up. Writer Jeff McComsey will be telling the story of U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler who was twice awarded the Medal of Honor and had a storied career participating in the Boxer Rebellion as well as actions in… Read more