Miltoons
Comicsography
In the years since The Comic Art of War was sent to press (in Autumn 2014), military cartooning has flourished on social media and paid-access, subscription, and crowdfunding sites, and digital access to library and museum archives has greatly expanded. Thus, the once somewhat-comprehensive appendix in the book quickly became outdated. This page serves as an addendum to the "guide to artists" and cartoons available in the text.
The original appendix from the book is recreated with new and updated entries, starred (✧). Active URLS and available full-texts are hyperlinked.
The comicsography has also been expanded to include comics and animations done in consort with military personnel and veterans, through interviews, life writings, or embedded journalism. Some mainstream war comics created by military veterans have also been added. Non-military/war comics by veteran creators are not included in the comicsography, but a running list of veteran creators of other comics art is provided at the end.
The distinction made between comics and illustrations is sometimes ambiguous, but efforts are made to focus on graphic narratives, even if they are single-panel stories - whether humorous or serious. The goal, as it was with The Comic Art of War, is to preserve and promote these voices and their stories.
This page is perpetually in-development. If you have suggestions or corrections, please contact me.
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Created: 21 November 2020
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Last updated: 4 November 2024
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✧Creator(s): Edith Allport
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Cpl.
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=96&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Bert Alper
Country: USA
Era(s): Japanese Occupation
Service: Cpl, Sixth Air Force
Source(s): in The Caribbean Breeze, https://aafcollection.info/items/documents/view.php?file=000133-01-00.pdf,
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https://aafcollection.info/items/documents/view.php?file=000134-01-00.pdf,
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https://aafcollection.info/items/documents/view.php?file=000132-01-00.pdf,
✧Creator(s): Charles Alston
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Pvt., Office of War Information (OWI)
Source(s): in Erin Blakemore, "This African American Artist's Cartoons Helped Win World War II," Smithsonian Magazine, February 27, 2017, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/african-american-artists-cartoons-helped-win-world-war-ii-180962279/, & Jessie Kratz, "The Drawings of Charles Alston," National Archives: Pieces of History,Febryary 22, 2017, https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2017/02/22/the-drawings-of-charles-alston/#more-23443.
✧Creator(s): American Legion with Scott Deschaine, June Brigman, and Roy Richardson
Country: USA
Era(s): Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom
Service: n.a.
Source(s): Our Country's Veterans (Indianapolis, IN: The American Legion, 2004)
✧Creator(s): Cody Anderson and Tim "Knockers" K
Country: USA
Era(s): Terror War
Service: Army
Source(s): "Pogue Life," https://www.facebook.com/PogueLife; http://codeyanderson.blogspot.com.au/.
✧Creator(s): Andrea ("Andy")
Country: USA
Era(s): post-terror war
Service: Air Force
Source(s): Living the DreamDoodles (Mixam, Jan-Dec. 2021); "DreamDoodles," https://www.instagram.com/dreamdoodles.2, https://doodlecomics.myshopify.com/; in David Roza, "We Salute Dream Doodles, the Airman Whose Comics Show the Hilarity of Air Force Life," Task & Purpose, 6 April 2021, https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-comic-dream-doodles-minot/.
✧Creator(s): anonymous
Country: USA
Era(s): Terror War
Service: Navy, Petty Officer
Source(s): "Duty Blues," https://www.facebook.com/DutyBluesComic/photos
✧Creator(s): anonymous
Country: USA
Era(s): post-terror war
Service: Marines
Source(s): "RomeoBravoFoxtrot," https://www.instagram.com/romeobravofoxtrot/.
Creator(s): anonymous
Country: USA
Era(s): post-terror war
Service: Marines
Source(s): "Rubachikn," https://www.instagram.com/rubachikn/.
✧Creator(s): anonymous
Country: USA
Era(s): post-terror war
Service: Marines
Source(s): "The Sun Draws," https://www.instagram.com/the_sun_draws/.
✧Creator(s): Anonymous
Country: USA
Era(s): Terror War (Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom)
Service: Army - officer
Source(s): "Doctrine Man," https://www.facebook.com/DoctrineMan/; The Further Adventures of Doctrine Man, Volume I (Lexington, KY: Doctrine Man, 2013); The Further Adventures of Doctrine Man, Volume II (Bernardino, CA: Doctrine Man, 2013); Fifty Shades of Multicam (Lexington, KY: Doctrine Man, 2014); Up in Smoke: An Illustrated Memoir of War (Lexington, KY: Doctrine Man, 2015); Coloring with Clausewitz: An Adult Coloring Book (Lexington, KY: Doctrine Man, 2017).
✧Creator(s): Brian Anthony {writer]
Country: USA
Era(s):
Service: Army
Source(s): "Terps," in Soldier Stories (Portland, OR: Image Comics, 2022).
✧Creator(s): Antiarmor Board
Country: USA
Era(s): Cold War
Service: US Army Infantry School
Source(s): How to Stop a Tank, also online at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3224990-U-S-Army-TC-23-3-To-Catch-a-Tank.html. And, see Joseph Trevithick, "This U.S. Army Comic Book Has Cavemen, Dinosaurs and Tips on Blowing Up Tanks," War is Boring, May 13, 2015, https://medium.com/war-is-boring/this-u-s-army-comic-book-has-cavemen-dinosaurs-and-tips-on-how-to-blow-up-tanks-d0afbe1c14bb.
✧Creator(s): Association of the United States Army
Country: USA
Era(s): not applicable
Service: Army
Source(s): Medal of Honor Graphic Novels:
Volume 1, Issue 1: Alvin York; Vol 1, Issue 2: Roy Benavidez; Vol 1, Issue 3: Audie Murphy; Vol 1, Issue 4: Sal Giunta;
Volume 2, Issue 1: Daniel Inouye; Vol 2, Issue 2: Henry Johnson; Vol 2, Issue 3: Mary Walker; Vol 2, Issue 4: Tibor Rubin;
Volume 3, Issue 1: Jacob Parrott, Vol 3, Issue 2: Mitchell Red Cloud Jr., Vol 3, Issue 3: Wild Bill Donovan, Vol 3, Issue 4: Roger Donlon;
Volume 4, Issue 1: Vernon Baker, Vol 4, Issue 2: Ralph Puckett, Vol 4, Issue 3: Tom Custer, Vol 4, Issue 4: Gary Gordon & Randy Shugart;
Volume 5, Issue 1: Edward Carter Jr., Vol 5, Issue 2: Samuel Woodfill, Vol 5, Issue 3: Bruce Crandall,
Creator(s): Al Avison
Country: USA
Era(s): Korean War
Service: unknown
Source(s): Military Courtesy (Harvey Comics, 1951).
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Creator(s): Jeff Bacon
Country: USA
Era(s): Cold War, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, interwar years
Service: Navy
Source(s): http://www.broadside.net; 20 Years of Broadside (Garden City, ID: Deep Water Publishing, 2006); The Best of Broadside (Newport News: Deep Water Publishing, 2006); *Your One Stop Transition Planner: A Practical 24-Month Countdown for ALL Military Readers (independently published, 2020); "The Broadside Blog," [includes Greenside cartoons] http://broadside.navytimes.com/.
✧Creator(s): George Baker
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army, Sgt., Signal Corps
Source(s): The Sad Sack (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1944); The New Sad Sack (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946); in Sid Schapiro, ed., I Ain’t Laughing, Sir (Stars and Stripes, 1980), 49-90; in Sarah G. Forgey, "Yank Magazine Cartoons," Army History, 113 (2019); in Ira Topping, ed., The Best of YANK The Army Weekly (New York: Arno Press, 1980); "The Sad Sack," in Yank,
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https://archive.org/details/Yank17June42_201504/page/n5/mode/2up,
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https://archive.org/details/YankMagazine5Aug42/page/n15/mode/2up,
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https://archive.org/details/YankMagazine12Aug42/page/n15/mode/2up,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348366&view=1up&seq=20,
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https://archive.org/details/yank_magazine_042745/page/n13/mode/2up,
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https://archive.org/details/yankfareastvol.2issue3819450420/page/n15/mode/2up,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=24&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=564&skin=2021,
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https://history.army.mil/html/books/epubs/art_of_the_american_soldier/army_of_am_soldier.pdf,
✧Creator(s): Bruce Bairnsfather
Country: England
Era(s): World War I
Service: Army, Capt.
Source(s): Carry On Sergeant! (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927); Fragments from France (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917); Tonie Holt and Valmai Holt, eds., The Best of Fragments from France (South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 1998); Old Bill Looks at Europe (New York: The Laugh Club, 1935).
✧Creator(s): Mark Baker
Country: USA
Era(s): Interwar years, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom
Service: Army
Source(s): Private Murphy’s Law (Baltimore: United Books Press, 1999); PV-2 Murphy: The Adventure Continues (Baltimore: United Books Press, 2001); Pfc. Murphy (Baltimore: United Books Press, 2005); Sgt. Murphy (Alexandria, VA: BYRRD Enterprises, 2008); "Private Murphy's Law," https://www.facebook.com/privatemurphyslaw; Murphy 2020 (America, 2020); Charlie Mike Comix #1, with Ken Warner, Michael Carrasquillo, Tom Kerns, Billy Coughlin, & Dion Walker Sr (America: Mark Baker, 2019); Charlie Mike Comix #2, with Ken Warner, Michael Carrasquillo, Tom Kerns, & Dion Walker Sr (America: Mark Baker, 2019); Charlie Mike Comix #3, with Ken Warner (America: Mark Baker, 2019); Charlie Mike Comix #4, with Maddison Campbell, Billy Coughlin, Michael Carrasquillo, Joe Cush, & Brian Smith (America: Mark Baker, 2020); Charlie Mike Comix #5, with Karl Souffront (America: Mark Baker, 2020); "Charlie Mike Comix," https://www.patreon.com/charliemikecomix, http://charliemikecomix.com/.
Creator(s): Roger Baker
Country: USA
Era(s): Korean War
Service: Marines
Source(s): USMC Tanker’s Korea (Oakland, OR: Elderberry Press, 2001).
Creator(s): C. Leroy Baldridge
Country: USA
Era(s): World War I
Service: Army, Pvt.
Source(s): John T. Winterich, ed., Squads Write! A Selection of the Best Things in Prose, Verse and Cartoons from The Stars and Stripes (New York: Harpers & Brothers Publishers, 1931); Alexander Woolcott, The Command is Forward – Tales of the A.E.F. Battlefields as They Appeared in The Stars and Stripes (New York: The Century Company, 1919).
✧Creator(s): Brandon Ballard
Country: USA
Era(s): Terror War
Service:
Source(s): G.I. Bad (Follow Twice).
✧Creator(s): Jim Baker
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service:
Source(s): Milton Caniff archives - requires further investigation
✧Creator(s): John Banvard and Jerry Nadeau (narrators)
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II and Vietnam War
Service: unknown
Source(s): A Life, Complete {animation}, StoryCorps, https://storycorps.org/animation/a-life-complete/.
✧Creator(s): P.S. Barlow
Country: USA
Era(s): Terror War era, Iraq/Afghanistan ongoing
Service: Army
Source(s): "G.I. Low," https://www.facebook.com/GILowComics. https://gilowco.wordpress.com/; B.F.A. G.I. Low Anthology: Origins and Basic Training (Divided by Zero Comics, 2017); Blank Firing Adapter (Divided by Zero Comics, 2018); The New Low (G.I. Low Anthology) (Independently Published, 2020); in Gene Bennett, We Did Not Deserve the Crapper: The Prison We Entered but Never Fully Left (independently published, 2022).
Creator(s): Barsis
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: unknown
Source(s): They’re All Yours, Uncle Sam! (New York: Stephan Daye, 1943).
✧Creator(s): James W. Bashline
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Cpl
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Matt Battaglia
Country: n.a.
Era(s): World War I
Service: n.a. - based on soldier accounts
Source(s): "The Legendary Story of the 1914 Christmas Truce," Task & Purpose, http://taskandpurpose.com/comics/the-legendary-story-of-the-1914-christmas-truce/.
✧Creator(s): Romare Bearden
Country: U.S.A.
Era(s): World War II
Service: Sgt.
Source(s): "Dusty Dixon" and more. See http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2018/11/ink-slinger-profiles-by-alex-jay-bearden.html, https://beardenfoundation.org/art/, https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/Education/learning-resources/teaching-packets/pdfs/bearden-tchpk.pdf, http://ineedartandcoffee.blogspot.com/2015/01/romare-bearden-american-original.html.
✧Creator(s): William J. Bellamy [writer]
Country: USA
Era(s):
Service: Army National Guard
Source(s): "The Great Man," in Soldier Stories (Portland, OR: Image Comics, 2022).
✧Creator(s): Stephen Bentley
Country: U.S.A.
Era(s): World War II
Service: Navy
Source(s): "Navy Life"
Creator(s): Des Bettany
Country: England
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army, Bomb.
Source(s): Sara Malm, “Sketches from Hell: Humorous Cartoons Drawn by British Soldier Kept as a Japanese PoW,” Daily Mail, July 5, 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169177/Sketches-hell-Touching-cartoons-drawn-British-soldier-years-terror-Changi-prison.html.
Creator(s): Robert K. Bindig
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army
Source(s): Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (AFC/2001/001/32475), digital collection, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.32475/artworks.
✧Creator(s): Art Bimrose
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Pvt.
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=286&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): J.W. Blake
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: S/Sgt.
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=572&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Herbert Block
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army, Sgt.
Source(s): examples in "Don't Be a Doe! Training Comics from World War II to the Korean War," Pritzker Military Museum & Library, https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/museum/past-exhibits/dont-be-dope-training-comics-world-war-ii-and-korea.
✧Creator(s): Jae Boddie & Gary Odd Edmund
Country: USA
Era(s): Terror War
Service: Army, Drill Sgt.
Source(s): "Drill Bits," https://www.facebook.com/DRILLBITSbyJAEandODD,
✧Creator(s): Douglas Borgstedt
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Sgt.
Source(s): Ira Topping, ed., The Best of YANK The Army Weekly (New York: Arno Press, 1980); in Yank,
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https://archive.org/details/Yank17June42_201504/page/n13/mode/2up,
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https://archive.org/details/YankMagazine5Aug42/page/n13/mode/2up,
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https://archive.org/details/YankMagazine5Aug42/page/n15/mode/2up,
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https://archive.org/details/YankMagazine12Aug42/page/n15/mode/2up,
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https://archive.org/details/yankfareastvol.2issue3819450420/page/n23/mode/2up,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=98&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=115&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=190&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=310&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Frank Borth
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: T/Sgt
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=478&skin=2021, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=500&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Bob Bowie
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Sgt.
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=550&skin=2021,
Creator(s): Samuel Lionel Boylston
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army Air Force, Sgt.
Source(s): Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (AFC/2001/001/1848), digital collection, http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.01848/artworks.
✧Creator(s): Frank Brandt
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Sgt.
Source(s): Ira Topping, ed., The Best of YANK The Army Weekly (New York: Arno Press, 1980); editor, Cartoons for Fighters (Washington, DC: The Infantry Journal, 1945), 91-116; in Yank,
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https://archive.org/details/YankMagazine5Aug42/page/n15/mode/2up,
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https://archive.org/details/YankMagazine12Aug42/page/n15/mode/2up,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=254&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=348&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=363&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=376&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Dave Breger
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army, Pvt.
Source(s): Private Breger: His Adventures in Army Camp (New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1942); Private Breger in Britain (London: The Pilot Press Ltd, 1944); “Private Breger,” in I Ain’t Laughing, Sir, edited by Sid Schapiro (Stars and Stripes, 1980); "GI Joe," in Yank, https://archive.org/details/Yank17June42_201504/page/n23/mode/2up, https://history.army.mil/html/books/epubs/art_of_the_american_soldier/army_of_am_soldier.pdf.
Creator(s): Barbara Bristol
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Marines, Pfc.
Source(s): Meet Molly Marine (Robert J. Weaver, 1945).
✧Creator(s): British Royal Air Force, with Brian Connolly
Country: England
Era(s): Terror War
Service: RAF
Source(s): "Be Part of the Story" recruitment campaign. Examples in Matthew F. Rech, "Be Part of the Story: A popular geopolitics of war comics aesthetics and Royal Air Force recruitment," Political Geography 39 (2014): 36-47 (online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629813000656); at BrianConnollyWork.com - https://bit.ly/3SUcM2N
✧Creator(s): Howard Brodie
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service:
Source(s): paintings, They Drew Fire, http://www.pbs.org/theydrewfire/artists/brodie.html.
Creator(s): Kathleen A. Browning
Country: USA
Era(s): Operation Desert Storm
Service: Army
Source(s): Paula E. Calvin and Deborah A. Deacon, American Women Artists in Wartime, 1776-2010 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011); “Mid-East Coast Girls,” Art of the American Soldier, http://constitutioncenter.org/experience/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/art-of-the-american-soldier-gallery .
Creator(s): Jack Bryan
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army Air Force, Sgt.
Source(s): “Uniform ‘Beau Brummel’ Humor,” eBay listing by k-townconsignments, http://www.ebay.com/itm/MILITARY-POLICE-ARMY-UNIFORM-HUMOR-POLITICAL-CARTOON-ART-MACDILL-FIELD-FLORIDA-/140943951004.
✧Creator(s): Johnny Bryson
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Pvt.
Source(s): Ira Topping, ed., The Best of YANK The Army Weekly (New York: Arno Press, 1980); in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=168&skin=2021, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=190&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Robert Bugg
Country: USA
Era(s: World War II
Service: Cpl.
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=30&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Megan Ferrell Burke [writer]
Country: USA
Era(s):
Service: Marines
Source(s): "All Clear," in Soldier Stories (Portland, OR: Image Comics, 2022).
Creator(s): Hal Burrows
Country: USA
Era(s): World War I
Service: Sgt.
Source(s): John T. Winterich, ed., Squads Write! A Selection of the Best Things in Prose, Verse and Cartoons from The Stars and Stripes (New York: Harpers & Brothers Publishers, 1931).
✧Creator(s): Ford Button
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army.
Source(s): cartoons, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, https://hdl.handle.net/1811/1a640ffd-f98b-4141-887b-7493e6e90112, https://hdl.handle.net/1811/52ac3561-c0a9-4f1f-a975-7980eff3faff.
Creator(s): Alban B. Butler, Jr.
Country: USA
Era(s): World War I
Service: Army, Capt.
Source(s): Training for the Trenches: A Book of Humorous Cartoons on a Serious Subject (New York: Palmer Publishing Company, 1917); “Happy Days!” A Humorous Narrative in Drawings of the Progress of American Arms, 1917-1919 (Chicago: First Division Museum at Cantigny, 2011).
✧Creator(s): Colby Buzzell (writer) with Evan Parsons (filmmaker)
Country: USA
Era(s): Operation Iraqi Freedom
Service: unknown
Source(s): Operation Homecoming {animation}, https://vimeo.com/74015908.
Creator(s): Dorothea Byerly
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: WAVES, Y/1C
Source(s): Up Came a Ripple (East Orange, NJ: Greenwood Press, 1945).
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✧Creator(s): Alex de Campi & Khai Krumbhar (editors)
Country: USA
Era(s): Vietnam through Terror Wars
Service: various
Source(s): True War Stories: Tales of Deployment from Vietnam to Today (Z2 Comics, 2020).
✧Creator(s): Kenny Caplan
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service:
Source(s): Milton Caniff archives - requires further investigation
✧Creator(s): Irwin Caplan
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Sgt.
Source(s): Ira Topping, ed., The Best of YANK The Army Weekly (New York: Arno Press, 1980); in Yank,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=25&skin=2021,
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✧Creator(s): Normand Henry Carleton
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army
Source(s): Envelopes with artwork, Library of Congress: Veterans History Project, https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.90151/artworks.
✧Creator(s): Warrant Officer Roy Carr, Colour Sergeant Arthur Huddart, Sergeant John R. Webb
Country: Great Britain
Era(s): Cold War era
Service: Royal Marines
Source(s): Up the Falklands! Cartoons from the Royal Marines (1982)
Creator(s): Ward Carroll
Country: USA
Era(s): Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom
Service: Navy, LCdr
Source(s): “Brownshoes in Action Comix,” Approach Magazine, http://safetycenter.navy.mil/.
✧Creator(s): Mel Casson
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Pvt.
Source(s): in Yank, https://archive.org/details/YANK29July42/page/n9/mode/2up.
✧Creator(s): Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Country: USA
Era(s): various, including American Civil War, Honduras 1903, Nicaragua 1909, China 1927, Chicago 1944, Vietnam 1967, Grenada 1983
Service: assorted
Source(s): Real War Stories #1 (Eclipse, 1987); Real War Stories #2 (Eclipse, 1991).
✧Creator(s): Jerry Chamberlain
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Sgt.
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=308&skin=2021, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=572&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Posher Cherry
Country: USA
Era(s): Japanese Occupation
Service: Air Force (?)
Source(s): in The Caribbean Breeze, https://aafcollection.info/items/list.php?act=lx&ch=series&obj=5&pkg=lx!title!!123!4!title!up!20
Creator(s): Choé
Country: Vietnam
Era(s): Vietnam War
Service: Sgt.
Source(s): Tran Da Tu, Writers and Artists in Vietnamese Gulags with Choé's Cartoons from Vietnam (Washington, DC: Century Publishing House, 1990); http://www.watermargin.com/vietmain/toons/choe_art.html.
✧Creator(s): Bert Christman
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: U.S. Navy, bomber pilot
Source(s): "Scorchy Smith" {pre-service cartoons}, http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/05/31/cartoonist-bert-christman-did-not-survive-war/ .
✧Creator(s): Justin Cliburn (narrator)
Country: USA
Era(s): Operation Iraqi Freedom
Service: Spc., Army National Guard
Source(s): The Nature of War {animation}, https://storycorps.org/animation/the-nature-of-war/.
Creator(s): Jack Coggins
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army
Source(s): David Coggins, “Jack Coggins Yank Magazine Illustrations & Articles,” Jack Banham Coggins, October 2014, http://www.jackcoggins.info/yanklist.html.
✧Creator(s): Edward Coffey
Country: USA
Era(s): Operation Iraqi Freedom
Service: Army
Source(s): Redwood Comics, https://redwoodcomics.com/comics;
✧Creator(s): Jalysa Conway [writer]
Country: USA
Era(s):
Service: Air Force
Source(s): "Game Over," in Soldier Stories (Portland, OR: Image Comics, 2022).
✧Creator(s): John Cordle, Mike Turner, Jeff Bacon
Country: USA
Era(s): Terror War
Service: Navy
Source(s): Your One Stop Transition Planner: A Practical 24-Month Countdown for ALL Military Readers (independently published, 2020).
✧Creator(s): John Cordwell
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: POW (Germany)
Source(s): works on loan to Pritizker Military Museum & Library, https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/exhibits-and-events/life-behind-wire-prisoners-war
✧Creator(s): Bing Coughlin
Country: Canada
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army
Source(s): Herbie Wuz Here! A Collection of WWII Canadian Military Cartoons 1944-1946 (Altmonte, ON: Algrove Publishing, 2008); Herbie!, with J.D.M (Canada: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1946); This Army: Maple Leaf Album (Rome, Italy: No. 2 Canadian Public Relations Group, 1944).
Creator(s): Cecile Cowdery
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: military wife
Source(s): “My Personal Touch,” Reader’s Digest Special Edition World War II: An Illustrated Celebration of Love Letters, Homecomings, and the American Family. July 22, 2014: 67.
Creator(s): Percy L. Crosby
Country: USA
Era(s): World War I
Service: Army, Lieut.
Source(s): That Rookie from the 13th Squad (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918); John T. Winterich, ed., Squads Write! A Selection of the Best Things in Prose, Verse and Cartoons from The Stars and Stripes (New York: Harpers & Brothers Publishers, 1931).
✧Creator(s): C. Cross
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service:
Source(s): Milton Caniff archives - requires further investigation
✧Creator(s): John Russell Cross
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army, Sgt.
Source(s): in, Patricia Benoit, "Camp Hood Cartoonist Captured 1940s Military Life," Temple Daily Telegram, 27 May, 2017, That https://www.tdtnews.com/news/article_c42fcaf0-12aa-11e7-be84-07ca93ad0893.html.
✧Creator(s): Jack Crowe
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Sgt.
Source(s): "Windy City Kitty." In Yank Far East https://archive.org/details/yankfareastvol.2issue3819450420/page/n23/mode/2up; in Yank Down Under; at https://yankmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/08/windy-city-kitty.html, https://yankmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/08/windy-city-kitty_15.html, https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=703911, [Article about "Windy City Kitty" at https://christophercrowe.blogspot.com/2009/08/yank-magazine-ww-ii-and-my-dad.html.]
Creator(s): George Cruikshank
Country: Scotland
Era(s): Napoleonic Wars
Service: Loyal North Britons, volunteer regiment of Scots in London
Source(s): in Mark Bryant, Napoleonic Wars in Cartoons (London: Grub Street Publishing, 2009), 16, 35-6, 63, 68, 81, 98-9, 102, 105-7, 109-15, 129-31, 134-7, 139, 145-7, 152-3, 156, and 158.
✧Creator(s): “Paul Crum” (Roger Pettiward)
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Commandos
Source(s): in Mark Bryant, World War II in Comics (London: W.H. Smith Ltd., 1989), 52, 53.
✧Creator(s): Joe Cunningham
Country: USA
Era(s: World War II
Service: Cpl.
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=30&skin=2021, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=238&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Frank Curre (narrator)
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Navy
Source(s): Frank Curre {animation recalling attack on Pearl Harbor}, StoryCorps, https://storycorps.org/animation/frank-curre/.
✧Creator(s): Ken Curtis
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service:
Source(s): Milton Caniff archives - requires further investigation
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Creator(s): Kirkland H. Day
Country: USA
Era(s): World War I
Service: Army
Source(s): Camion Cartoons (Boston, MA: Marshall Jones Company, 1919).
✧Creator(s): Anthony Delatri
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Pfc
Source(s): in Ira Topping, ed., The Best of YANK The Army Weekly (New York: Arno Press, 1980); in Yank,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=76&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=98&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=214&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=238&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=260&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=380&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Alex DeLich
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service:
Source(s): Milton Caniff archives - requires further investigation
✧Creator(s): Edward "Mort" Denell
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: PFC, 26th Marine Corps
Source(s): Cartoons & illustrated diary, in Mike McConnell, "Exhibit Shows Berkley WWII Vet's Battle Cartoons, from Grisly to Humorous," The Oakland Press, February 25, 2016, https://www.theoaklandpress.com/news/nation-world-news/exhibit-shows-berkley-wwii-vet-s-battle-cartoons-from-grisly-to-humorous/article_aa249282-f4ad-582c-b932-70fcc1398a4a.html; in, Iwo Jima Diary [film]
✧Creator(s): Otto Dix
Country: Germany
Era(s): World War I
Service: artillery gunner
Source(s): Der Krieg, MoMA, https://www.moma.org/s/ge/collection_ge/objbyppib/objbyppib_ppib-12_sov_page-37.html
Creator(s): Clive Dixon
Country: England
Era(s): Boer War
Service: 16th Lancers, Capt.
Source(s): Mark Bryant, Wars of Empire in Cartoons (London: Grub Street Publishing, 2009), 125.
✧Creator(s): The Doerr Team
Country: USA
Era(s): Terror War-era
Service: "current or former Student Naval Aviators"
Source(s): "Doerr Comic," https://www.doerrcomic.com/, https://www.facebook.com/doerrcomic/.
✧Creator(s): Bob Donovan
Country: USA
Era(s): Korean War
Service: Marines
Source(s): in Gyrene Gyngles and Cartoons (The Leatherneck Association, 1951); [Snuffy Smith]
✧Creator(s): Wallace Dowey
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service:
Source(s): Milton Caniff archives - requires further investigation
Creator(s): Fairfax Downey
Country: USA
Era(s): World War I
Service: Lt.
Source(s): John T. Winterich, ed., Squads Write! A Selection of the Best Things in Prose, Verse and Cartoons from The Stars and Stripes (New York: Harpers & Brothers Publishers, 1931).
✧Creator(s): David Dresser
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army, T/5
Source(s): "A Veteran's Cartoon Diary," David Ray Dresser Collection (AFC/2001/001/58090), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
✧Creator(s): Sam Dubin
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Pfc
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): O.I. Dudley
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Cpl.
Source(s): Ira Topping, ed., The Best of YANK The Army Weekly (New York: Arno Press, 1980); in Yank, https://archive.org/details/Yank17June42_201504/page/n5/mode/2up, https://archive.org/details/YankMagazine12Aug42/page/n17/mode/2up,
✧Creator(s): Chris Duffy (editor)
Country: n.a.
Era(s): World War I
Service: n.a. - based on Trench literature
Source(s): Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics (NewYork: First Second, 2014).
Creator(s): R.F. Duggan
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: unknown
Source(s): in Donald Nijboer, Graphic War: The Secret Aviation Drawings and Illustrations of World War II (Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 2011), 34; at https://www.flickr.com/photos/regierart/sets/72157633031054732/.
Creator(s): Frank Dunne
Country: Australia
Era(s): World War I
Service: Army
Source(s): Digger Days! Laughing through the Great War (Reprinted by courtesy of the Proprietors of Smiths Weekly, 1919); “Digger Days,” Australian War Memorial, digital exhibits, http://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/1918.
Creator(s): Will Dyson
Country: Australia
Era(s): World War I
Service: Australian official war artist
Source(s): Mark Bryant, World War I in Cartoons (London: Grub Street Publishing 2009), 121 and 158.
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✧Creator(s): Billy Earnest
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Cpl., 531st Fighter Squadron, 21st Fighter Group
Source(s): Illustrated letters, found in the Milton Caniff archives of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Ohio State University Libraries.
Creator(s): 8th Route Military
Country: China
Era(s): World War II
Service: Army
Source(s): John A. Lent and Xu Ying, “Cartooning and Wartime China: Part One – 1931-1945,” International Journal of Comic Art 10, no. 1 (2008): 76-139.
✧Creator(s): Paul Eismann
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: T-5
Source(s): in Yank, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=307&skin=2021,
✧Creator(s): Will Eisner
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II (+Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War)
Service: Army
Source(s): "Joe Dope," Army Motors, http://www.jhalpe.com; "Joe Dope," in Cartoons for Fighters, Frank Brandt, ed. (Washington, DC: The Infantry Journal, 1945); Eddie Campbell, ed., P.S Magazine: The Best of the Preventative Maintenance Monthly (New York, NY: Abrams ComicArts, 2011); Department of the Army, Troubleshooting Equipment in Combat Units (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973); The M561/M792 GAMA Goat: Operation and Preventative Maintenance (Department of the Army, 1979); The M16A1 Rifle: Operation and Preventative Maintenance (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1969); Last Day in Vietnam (Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2000); "Joe Dope," Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, https://hdl.handle.net/1811/8c75aa51-d4c6-4452-a3e8-845b4a6a9f75.
✧Creator(s): Ned Eller
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: Pvt., Army
Source(s): A Rookie in Robinson, archived at the Besser Museum
✧Creator(s): Dick Ericson
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service: S/Sgt
Source(s): in Yank, https://archive.org/details/yank_magazine_042745/page/n21/mode/2up,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=96&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=207&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=212&skin=2021,
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=402&skin=202,
✧Creator(s): Erso
Country: USA
Era(s): World War II
Service:
Source(s): Milton Caniff archives - requires further investigation
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Anthony DuBose-McCree
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