To End All Wars

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. Two dollars from the sale of copy will go to Medicins Sans Frontiers/Doctors Without Borders.

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.

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.