To End All Wars: The Graphic Anthology of the First World War

Clode, Jonathan & Clark, John Stuart (Editors)

ISBN 10: 1908030135 / ISBN 13: 9781908030139

Published by Soaring Penguin Press, 2014

About this Item

306 pgs. No highlighting or underlining. Includes 2 fold-out comic pages - tucked in back. Ribbon bookmark attached to the spine. An Anthology. It's how a series like "Charley's War" managed to slip under the wire and spread its anti-war message to a young mass audience in the UK.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1680363169914

Bibliographic Details

• Title: To End All Wars: The Graphic Anthology of the First World War
• Publisher: Soaring Penguin Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908030135
• ISBN 13: 9781908030139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

An omnibus of 27 short graphic narratives based on actual events, characters, circumstances, incidents, myths or consequences of the Great War. Featuring the four theatres of war (land, sea, air and the home front), spanning four continents and drawn from both sides of the conflict, our stories range from four to sixteen pages long, each by a different author and/or illustrator from the world of independent comics. All proceeds from the publication with go to Medicins Sans Frontiers.

The beauty of the To End All Wars project is the range of themes it covers, away from the usual focus on the Western Front. "We have dramatic reconstructions of the war in the Atlantic that could have come straight out of Steve Ditko's vault of horror" outline Jonathan and Brick on the project's web site. "We have the story of combatants' affection and need for pets in the trenches, related exclusively in pictures . We have the obligatory war poet's story, but that of a Welsh hill farmer rather than some bit of posh who's been done to death. And we have a feminist take on the controversial Mata Hari and the very personal story of an author's search for their great grandfather's memorial.

About the Authors

Jonathan is a comics reviewer and writer based in the UK. To End All Wars is the first anthology he has tried to organise.

John Clark is a travel writer and cartoonist who goes by the nickname Brick. His book Depresso was published by Knockabout in 2011.

Born Celt of Austro-Scottish blood. Drew first breath in Berne, Switzerland. ('49 was a good year.) Dragged round air force bases in Far East and Europe until deposited in Posh School, Rochester, England. Nine years later deemed red-brick failure. Consigned to military, church or industry.

John Clark is a travel writer and cartoonist who goes by the nickname Brick. His book Depresso was published by Knockabout in 2011.

Born Celt of Austro-Scottish blood. Drew first breath in Berne, Switzerland. ('49 was a good year.) Dragged round air force bases in Far East and Europe until deposited in Posh School, Rochester, England. Nine years later deemed red-brick failure. Consigned to military, church or industry.