War Is Boring

For going on six years I’ve been a freelance war correspondent. I wrote a comic book about the experience and conned a very talented artist named Matt Bors into drawing it. It’s called War is Boring, and it comes out next week from New American Library.

“Working as a freelance war correspondent, David Axe has visited a fearsome number of the world’s most volatile hot spots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia and Chad,” Time Out New York says of my new graphic novel War is Boring.

One of America’s great national treasures, stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen, celebrated his 90th birthday June 29th and the Web is bespangled with tributes, articles and retrospectives. So many of “Uncle Ray’s” films feature brave soldiers battling dinosaurs, aliens, space monsters and Greek myths, that you might wonder about Harryhausen’s martial experience. We thought WIB readers might be pleased to know that as a member of the Greatest Generation, Harryhausen joined his peers Chuck Jones, Ted Giesel (Dr. Seuss!) and others working on Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” series during World War II. In his autobiography, Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life (co-authored with Tony Dalton), Harryhausen writes.

Last month, Publishers Weekly reviewed my new graphic novel War is Boring, praising its “honesty [that] sets it apart from other war narratives.” Now PW is back for more. War is Boring features on the front page of the magazine’s comics round-up. Check it out above.

Matt Bors, WIB’s artist in residence, is headed to Afghanistan. The Oregonian explains.

Washington City Paper reviews War is Boring!

“David Axe, a correspondent for The Washington Times, C-SPAN and the BBC, has made a career of following wars — from arms-dealer trade shows, to refugee camps, to the actual battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, East Timor and Somalia,” The Comics Journal begins its review.

New American Library has posted a commercial for my new graphic novel War Is Boring.

Four years after it was published by New York indie NBM, my debut graphic novel War Fix warrants mention in an article by Comic Book Bin entitled “NBM Responds to War.” Also featured is my friend and inspiration Ted Rall.

Chris Albon, author of the Conflict Health blog, plugs my new comic book War is Boring over at Current Intelligence.

“Is war boring?” asks Dan Cook at the Columbia, S.C. Free Times, my former employer.