Four-Fisted Tales is a highly entertaining and informative book that taught me all sorts of things about animals in combat. Apparently, the US military has been using dolphins for all sorts of missions (allegedly, because lots of info about it is classified) for decades. Among the many things I also learned from this book are… Read more

I first met Ben Towle in 2005, when I attended the first meeting of a drawing club organized and hosted by Ben. As he explains in the following interview, the group (mock-pompously called the Camel City Cartoonists’ Guild and Social Club) was his attempt to grow a comic culture in his then-hometown of Winston-Salem, North… Read more

Publication date UK format 30/4/22 book 128 pages. I would like to thank the author, publishers and Netgalley for allowing me to pick this to read and review all my reviews are honest. Maxwell Fox didn’t know what he would witness in France. America had only been in the Great War since April 2, 1917…. Read more

I received a copy (for the purposes of review) of the graphic novel, “The Stretcher Bearers.” Published by Dead Reckoning, they are the graphic novel division of the nonprofit organization known as the U.S. Naval Institute. This graphic novel is written by brothers Reid Beaman and Ryan Beaman with Reid illustrating. It is a superb… Read more

In October 1918, Private Maxwell is running from a bomb during World War I. In flashbacks, it is shown how Maxwell got there as one of The Stretcher Bearers in the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne. The book puts the reader directly in the action as a stretcher bearer in WWI. It shows the painful aspects… Read more

Theodore Roosevelt Association Children’s Book Award – 2022 We are proud to announce the nominees for the third annual Theodore Roosevelt Association Children’s Book Prize. The book which best portrays Theodore Roosevelt for the young while maintaining historical fidelity will receive a $1,000 prize, award certificate, and bust of the president. A panel of historians,… Read more

Continuing my delve into the stack of World War I books that I have purchased in the last year, I figured it was time for another comic to decompress since I just finished reading a HUGE book on the Belgian relief effort in 1914. The subject of this review is a book by Dead Reckoning,… Read more

SAN DIEGO – Comic-Con is proud to announce the nominees for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2022. The nominations are for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2021 and were chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges. Once again, this year’s nominees in 32 categories reflect the wide range of material being… Read more

I was able to read a review copy of, “The Lions of Leningrad,” thanks to being on the press list with the publisher, the Dead Reckoning imprint of the U.S. Naval Institute (a non-profit that puts out fascinating books). Written by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem with art by Thomas Du Caju, this was a fantastic read. The… Read more

Dead Reckoning, the Naval Institute Press’ graphic novel imprint, published The Lions of Leningrad, a compilation of Belgian writer Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem’s The Lions of Leningrad – Volume I: I Am Chapayev (2019)and The Lions of Leningrad – Volume II: City of Death (2021). Set in the Soviet Union in two different eras – the… Read more