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westonf
12-17-2008, 03:35 AM
As a recent history graduate from the lovely University of Montevallo and lover of comics, I was wondering if i could get some help. I am looking for some comics based around or on Napoleon. Even comics based on the era of Napoleon (late 1700's to 1821) would be fine. If not that, comics Napoleon has popped up in would be good, because if comics are good for one thing its random historical characters appearing in random places.

also as a side question, what is your favorite "historical" or history comic? kinda like a age of bronze, northwest passage deal. doesnt have to be accurate 100% in terms of fact.

six-gun
12-17-2008, 11:57 AM
As a recent history graduate from the lovely University of Montevallo and lover of comics, I was wondering if i could get some help. I am looking for some comics based around or on Napoleon. Even comics based on the era of Napoleon (late 1700's to 1821) would be fine. If not that, comics Napoleon has popped up in would be good, because if comics are good for one thing its random historical characters appearing in random places.

also as a side question, what is your favorite "historical" or history comic? kinda like a age of bronze, northwest passage deal. doesnt have to be accurate 100% in terms of fact.

Napoleon era comics? You've got me. Why don't you just go read the sublime Gallows Thief (http://www.amazon.com/Gallows-Thief-Novel-Bernard-Cornwell/dp/0060082747/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229514927&sr=8-1) by Bernard Cornwell?

I feel like a broken record here, but the best historical comic of all time is Garth Ennis' War Stories from Vertigo.

neb
12-17-2008, 05:36 PM
Northwest Passage and From Hell. The annotations alone make those books.

jaflanagan
12-17-2008, 11:09 PM
I don't know of any Napoleon books, but we did a whole show of books based on History (http://revision3.com/ifanboy/history/) a while back.