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Not much to say about this, a short story that works as a sort of "prologue" to the whole project, but it can't really be one, as there is no epilogue.
The Poilus is a collection of six separate stories and this was actually done as the last one, and it didn't even appear in the first sketches I had for the project. I just felt like drawing what it must have been like in 1914. People often consider the World War 1 just years of fighting in the trenches, but it actually started out like any other war at the time. This story was drawn completely while I was in the army myself, during the last month in active service when I had some spare time in 2006.
The "poem" caused some head ache, first in Finnish and now in English. The original was viewed and then reviewed by several of my friends, each in a way giving something into it. Thank you for that. Not Shakespeare, but will have to do. Just a simple man writing down his thoughts into a rhyming form.
As a little detail; the dog soldier (well, they are all dogs!) crouching in the trench, the one with the glasses, is a little salute to a fellow Corporal from the army, sort of a lookalike.
The Poilus is a collection of six separate stories and this was actually done as the last one, and it didn't even appear in the first sketches I had for the project. I just felt like drawing what it must have been like in 1914. People often consider the World War 1 just years of fighting in the trenches, but it actually started out like any other war at the time. This story was drawn completely while I was in the army myself, during the last month in active service when I had some spare time in 2006.
The "poem" caused some head ache, first in Finnish and now in English. The original was viewed and then reviewed by several of my friends, each in a way giving something into it. Thank you for that. Not Shakespeare, but will have to do. Just a simple man writing down his thoughts into a rhyming form.
As a little detail; the dog soldier (well, they are all dogs!) crouching in the trench, the one with the glasses, is a little salute to a fellow Corporal from the army, sort of a lookalike.
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Now, someone has been reading Jacques Tardi, hasn't he? Having read through the whole Poilu cycle, it reminds me of his comics. War stories or no, the tone is essentially anti-war, and the inking makes me think of him too. Being more into the Franco-Prussian war, I am not the person to evaluate the historical accuracy of each and every detail, but the sheer amount of it makes me kinda... jealous. Yes. Jealous. Sometimes I had trouble in telling the characters apart though (not here, but in some of the other comics). However, I have come to like these a lot.