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RESEARCH DOCUMENT<br />
The graphic book features interviews by the agency’s managing director<br />
Adrian Searle with veterans about their stories and experiences during their<br />
wars. It also features a few excerpts from classic comic strip Charley’s War<br />
and a few pictures taken by a photographer named Nick Collin during his<br />
time of the war in Afghanistan.<br />
Like a lot of graphic novels out there, this one sticks to a minimalistic style<br />
of art, showing off a vibrant red to emphasis pictures, which also seems to<br />
be the only color in the book. The use of comic language to depict noises<br />
has also been widely used and expressed. In an interview, Turbitt talks<br />
about how “Charley’s War” was a graphic novel that helped inspire the<br />
tone of Dougie’s War.<br />
The novel was highly praised by a lot of magazines such as The Sunday<br />
Express, Sunday Herald, Big Issue etc which praised the illustrating style<br />
the most as it captured the very essence of stress disorder veterans face.<br />
Above: A few introduction and interview<br />
pages from the graphic novel<br />
Two scottish veterans David Cruickshanks (left) and Shaun<br />
Davidson (right) attend the launch of the graphic novel at<br />
Edinburgh Castle<br />
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