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

Dead Reckoning, the graphic novel imprint of the Naval institute Press, has three new original titles lined up for Fall 2021. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, by James D. Hornfischer, Doug Murray, and Steven Sanders, tells the story of the Battle of Samar, in which a small group of escort ships held off… Read more

In their appealing young adult graphic novel, Luckinbill and Tait present the facts of President Theodore Roosevelt’s life in compact form, while conveying the spirt of the man and the times. We see an elderly Roosevelt, now frail, hard of hearing, and partly blind. Addressing a crowd in an auditorium, he looks back contemplatively over… Read more

“The Tankies” is a set of three linked comics from Dead Reckoning Press about a crew of the Royal Tank Regiment (whose motto “From Mud, Through Blood, to the Green Fields Beyond.” gets regular play in the comic); in the first comic a British tank crew led by corporal Stiles in a Churchill tank fight… Read more

The Comics Pals interview Garth Ennis, the legendary writer behind classics like The Boys, Preacher, The Punisher and so much more. We discuss Ennis’s fascination with WWII and the war comics he read growing up, his recent work with Dead Reckoning (including The Tankies and The Stringbags), and what he thinks about the future of… Read more

Tankies is a collection I never realized I needed. I’ve read the component limited series and story arcs, which came out in Dynamite’s Battlefields series from writer Garth Ennis. The Tankies brand was in the separate mini series version, the first attempt at an anthology series, and the second attempt at the anthology series. Dynamite… Read more

Three stories of war from the perspective of those who ride in tanks. The Tankies collects three stories originally published by Dynamite and now released by Dead Reckoning. Story: Garth Ennis Art: Carlos Ezquerra Ink: Hector Ezquerra Color: Tony Aviña Letterer: Simon Bowland

The Tankies By Garth Ennis Carlos Ezquerra from Dead Reckoning – superb comic book tales set in World War 2 and Korean war and follows a tank and Sgt Stiles and his conflict with the Nazis (and their tanks and crew). Humour, violence, human tales … quite a high impact set of stories. This is… Read more