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Tagged: WWI

Putain de Guerre by Tardi

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Tardi Revisits the Horrors of War in ‘Putain de Guerre!’, plus a Preview of Marcel Ruyters’ Jheronimus Bosch Biography

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 4, 2015

Legendary French artist Jacques Tardi’s obsession with World War I is drenched in the blood and horror that is visited upon the common soldier. In Putain de Guerre! (‘Fucking War!’), he…

Gavrilo Princip by Henrik Rehr

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Danish Artist Henrik Rehr Delves into the Life of Gavrilo Princip, the Man Who Started WWI

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 9, 2014

On June 28th 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was murdered. It was the spark that sets the world on fire. Artist and writer Henrik Rehr has burrowed into the life of the Archduke’s…

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Zidrou and Porcel’s ‘Folies Bergère’ Presents a Mesmerising Metaphorical Odyssey into the Purgatory of the WWI Trenches

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • August 12, 2014

Since its publication in 1993, Tardi’s It Was the War of the Trenches (C’était la Guerre des Tranchées) has set the standard for World War I comics. But after 20 years there’s a…

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Line of Fire – Barroux Illustrates the Diary of an Unknown WWI Soldier

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • April 8, 2014

Found in a rubbish heap one winter’s morning, French artist Barroux rescued the diary of a soldier in the First World War and turned it into a compelling graphic novel….

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