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The last page of the prologue seals the perhaps predictable fate of Rene Schneider as part of a botched kidnapping attempt. Almost 40 years later there is a case still pending as Schneider’s family attempt to bring Kissinger to justice for his part in Schneider’s murder. Review the court documents here or find a more comprehensive overview here.
Many thanks to Adam Johnson for the pointer about spent Uzi rounds (and everything else!) and a hearty morale-boosting salute to the Stanford Graphic Novel Project Team, who are sweating away on their congolese graphic novel as I tap. The newest edition of my minicomic is almost done now so I’ll post snippets of it soon – and of course, feel free to get your orders in via the store page above!
So much for my regular post promises – but it’s been worth it to focus on the first splash panel in a while. For those new to the site, this is the 2nd page of the prologue, featuring Chilean Army Commander Rene Schneider. As you can tell, things aren’t about to end well.
All sorts of other gigs on at the mo, likc illos for Profile books in the UK and the Stanford Graphic Novel project, now at the 30 inked page mark. In other news, my now ancient piece in Julia Wertz’s missed connection anthology (published by Random House) has finally seen the light of day!
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).
