Most military histories focus on high ranking leaders and battle strategy. However, a focus on the individual soldiers who had to do the actual fighting and endure the horrors of war is equally if not more important to consider. While many can learn about war through movies and books, graphic novels are becoming an increasingly… Read more

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books Art Young’s Inferno, by Art Young, edited by Glenn Bray (Fantagraphics) Atlas at War! edited by Michael J. Vassallo (Dead Reckoning) The Complete Hate, by Peter Bagge, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics) Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salty Sea, by Hugo Pratt, translation by Dean Mullaney and Simone Castaldi (EuroComics/IDW)… Read more

John Hewson is a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent stranded in Holland. He’s trying to smuggle critical intelligence to the Allies, but the country is crawling with Nazis. However, when Operation Market Garden roars upon Holland, the military strike might just provide Hewson the opportunity he needs to escape. The Flutist of Arnhem is a… Read more

Graphic Thoughts #10: Teddy, Run Home If You Don’t Want to Be Killed, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden On this week’s edition of Graphic Thoughts, it is all about history, This week’s books include Teddy, Run Home If You Don’t Want to Be Killed, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. One of… Read more

This episode is being released on Memorial Day. In honor all service men and women who gave their lives in defense of their country, I am very pleased to welcome my special guest writer Garth Ennis. Garth Ennis’ body of work includes Judge Dredd stories for 2000 AD, The Punisher and Hitman. His comic book series Preacher… Read more

The book that I present to you today is a comic or “graphic novel”. The theme is one of the most interesting and fascinating characters in the history of the Marine Corps, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. But the opportunity to introduce this character is anything but banal as we know his story through flashbacks… Read more

Dead Reckoning will bring you three new graphic novels in Fall 2021. First up is Four-Fisted Tales by four-time Eisner-nominated cartoonist Ben Towle, which tells the story of how animals have been used to fight in the trenches, jungles, and deserts of the world’s battlefields. Next, The Jewish Brigade by Marvano follows how the Jewish Infantry Brigade Group came to… Read more

Based on the author’s one-man play, the life of Teddy Roosevelt is explored through a speech he actually gave to the Republican State Convention in Saratoga when he was 61 years old. Roosevelt and his wife were informed the day before that his youngest son, Quentin, was killed in World War I. Now he is addressing… Read more

Here at the Theodore Roosevelt Center, we are always on the lookout for new works related to Theodore Roosevelt. As we do our best to make the documents and works of Roosevelt available, it is rewarding to see how people use these sorts of resources, both in scholarly works and popular publications, and gives an… Read more

The Naval Institute Press’s graphic novel imprint, Dead Reckoning, will be continuing in 2021 with “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors” by James D. Hornfischer, Doug Murray and Steven Sanders; “Four-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat” by Ben Towle; and “The Jewish Brigade” by Marvano. The anthology book “Four-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat” spotlights… Read more