I’m very excited that this WWI graphic anthology is on its way from the printers to Soaring Penguin Press and will be arriving through letter boxes and in shops soon.
That’s partly because it looks like an interesting collection covering lots of lesser known aspects of WWI and £2 from the sale of each book will go to help the charity Médecins Sans Frontières. But mainly it’s because I wrote a fifteen page strip for it, called ‘Go Home and Sit Still‘, which has been illustrated by Arthur Goodman.
Dr Elsie Inglis inspects the hospital staff.
Our strip looks at the experiences of the women of the Scottish Women’s Hospital that went out to support Serbian troops in Russia in 1916/7.
The inclement Russian climate takes it’s toll on the roads & the hospital transport.
I’ll also be at both launch events and the signing at The Lakes Comic Arts Festival.
Midlands dwellers can join us at the Five Leaves Bookshop launch on Wed 30th July at 7pm. Please RSVP, as the venue will depend on attendance.
Nottingham Launch
For those of you in the Big Smoke there is a launch at Gosh! Comics on August 20th.
London Launch
Lots of links:
Buy To End All Wars from Soaring Penguin Press (£13.99 pre-publication special), from Amazon and from all good comic/book shops.
Acclaimed comics artists publish powerful anthology of stories to combat Michael Gove’s ‘jingoistic’ interpretation of WW1, The Independent
Director’s Commentary: guiding an anthology to completion with To End All Wars, Forbidden Planet Blog
War stories: The making of new WW1 anthology, BBC Scotland