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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 Thus, the once somewhat-comprehensive appendix in the book quickly became outdated.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.

 

  • Created: 21 November 2020

  • Last updated: 4 November 2024

Army Boots

A

Creator(s): Richard Allen

Country: USA

Era(s):World War II

Service: Y1c

Source(s): in Yankhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348366&view=1up&seq=27&skin=2021,

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 Breezehttps://aafcollection.info/items/documents/view.php?file=000133-01-00.pdf

Writers Hand

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/.

 

Writers Hand

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): Anonymous

Country: Australia

Era(s): 2020s

Service: Army

Source(s): "Experiences May Vary," https://www.facebook.com/experiencesmayvary/, https://www.instagram.com/emvmemes/.

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): Al Avison

Country: USA

Era(s): Korean War

Service: unknown

Source(s): Military Courtesy (Harvey Comics, 1951).

B

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

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/charliemikecomixhttp://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): H. Bauman

Country: USA

Era(s): World War II

Service: Sgt.

Source(s): in Yankhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=262&skin=2021,

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).

Writers Hand

​​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): 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): 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).

C

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): Ben Cantwell

Country: USA

Era(s):

Service: Infantry

Source(s): Ben Cantwell Art, https://www.instagram.com/bencantwell_art/, https://bencantwellart.com/,

Creator(s): Kenny Caplan

Country: USA

Era(s): World War II

Service:

Source(s): Milton Caniff archives - requires further investigation

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): 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;

Writers Hand

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): 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): 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

D

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): Alex DeLich

Country: USA

Era(s): World War II

Service:

Source(s): Milton Caniff archives - requires further investigation

Creator(s): Sol Dember

Country: USA

Era(s): World War II

Service: Cpl.

Source(s): in Yankhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012348325&view=1up&seq=334&skin=2021,

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): Jack Doherty

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=188&skin=2021,

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): Frank Dorsay

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=76&skin=2021,

Creator(s): Roy E. Doty

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=28&skin=2021,

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): Weston Emmart

Country: USA

Era(s): World War II

Service: Army

Source(s): in James Rush, "Humour on the Front Line," Daily Mail, June 26, 2013, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348795/Humour-line-World-War-Two-soldiers-amusing-cartoons-sent-home-Germany-family-worry-him.html.

Creator(s): Erso

Country: USA

Era(s): World War II

Service:

Source(s): Milton Caniff archives - requires further investigation

VETERAN CREATORS OF NON-MILITARY COMICS ART

Robert Anthony

Anthony DuBose-McCree

Nicholas Garza

Colin Hoffman ("Big C")

Rubachik'n

George Winder

Image by sue hughes

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