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Above is a continued sequence from Hardhats, my graphic novel in progress, set in May 1970 at the height of anti-Vietnam sentiment. Hit “previous” to read from the start of this little interlude. It being Martin Luther King day here in the US, celebrate it wherever you are in the world by listening to one of his speeches on Vietnam here: “the press generally won’t tell you these things, but God told me to tell you this morning…” RIP MLK.
Yet another busy week, though I’ve managed to claw some hours back to sit down at my drawing board and hammer out some more hardhats pages. What is Hardhats, you ask? It’s my graphic novel about the May 1970 NYC riots led by construction workers who were protesting against the rising anti-war student movement/New Left. Check out the Hardhats page for more info. Why is that the longer pause between pages, the more hatching and detail you put down on the said pages? Above is a sneak preview of a sample panel from Hardhats, which I’m 3 pages away from completing the first part of, including a brand new prologue.
Friday, May 8th 1970 marked the 40th anniversary of the Hardhat Riots, the subject of my upcoming graphic novel. Read all about it on the Hardhats page, together with some new photo evidence from the day that recently surfaced. Also, I’ve created an official press release for the Honduran Coup comic on the Honduras page – the link is so please RT it and share it around!
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I’ve decided to change things up from the Chile strip, which -fear not- will be continued shortly, to showcase a new piece I’ve been working on with my good friend and co-conspirator Nikil Saval about the riots that hit New York in May, 1970. Before you ask, yes it is a coincidence that both comics happen around the same time – no idea why I’m drawn to this specific period at the moment. My challenge is to upload a page every other day for the next month, though that could be more or less, depending on what makes it into the final cut (which is still being hastily revised).
Like Chile, this is all based on real events, though I won’t spoil too much by giving you the schpiel now. Sit back and enjoy! Chile pages for the end of the prologue are on their way also, then I’ll post the entire Chile strip in the proper order as a more webreader-friendly issuu file.
For regular readers of this strip, pretend that the next three pages come before everything else you’ve read. I won’t give the game away about what happens – but the Army General in question is Rene Schneider
so feel free to follow that link and spoil the surprise for yourselves. And welcome to new readers – you’ve joined at the perfect time. I’ll post the correct page order soon once more of the strip is up.
I’m kickstarting the Chile strip again, so here’s where we left off, in the CIA field office in Santiago, Chile. Late Summer, 1970. Office chief Henry Hecksher and Field Agent David Atlee Phillips are discussing what to do next when a telegram arrives from Washington (the words AP reads out are direct quotes taken from the now unclassified files).
