Marine Afgan. War Vet produces Comic book

[Ugly Hombre]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/863672719/no-enemy-but-peace-graphic-novel

I thought this was pretty cool and thought some people would like to know about it.

Marine Vet makes and produces a comic book about his experience in combat.

Tells the story of his brothers.

"No enemy but peace"

 

[contender]

Interesting you bring this up. Miss Penny & I were thrift shopping some this past Saturday, and I found a Marvel comic, 1987, dated 7 June. The name on the cover; "The Nam." It's about Vietnam. For $2 I bought it.

 

[Ugly Hombre]

I remember "The Nam'' comic book, my pal had a book and comic book store one guy brang in the whole series to trade or sell, interesting run of comics for sure.

 

[Dan in MI]

When my brother was in Vietnam he sent back a book of one pager cartoons called "Sgt Mike" (I think) I assume drawn by a GI. Even for a ten year old kid it was pretty dang funny.

Found a snippet. It was actually "With Sgt. Mike" Looks like we had the original version, not the second or third printing based on what I read here, and the fact that it was square and the cover was not pink.

https://visualhumor.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/sgt-mike/

 

[wwb]

Humor can be found even in wartime. WW II brought us "Up Front" - if you haven't read it, it's a must.... especially for vets.

In Vietnam, we also had "Nguyen Charlie", who showed up in the Stars and Stripes. Found a sample:

http://pcf45.com/nguyen/nguyen.html

 

[sncup]

Steve Butler was a cartoonist for the Stars & Strips approx. 1970. We met in college after we both got out and were part of a Vet's club. We graduated and went separate ways, but I ran a copy of his cartoons and still have them. I'm not sure I should post them (copyright and all that) since they are not mine. Makes me think I should try looking Steve up to see if he is still on the right side of the grass.

Swift boat duty was tough. The Lieutenant in charge of a "C" school I went to had 2 Swift boats sunk under him. The 2nd boat he was the sole survivor.