Author/Illustrator Information and Qualifications
Chuck Dixion
25 years experience in GN field as a writer, editor and publisher.
Worked on hundreds of scripts to publishers like DC Comics, Marvel, Dark Horse, Hyperion and others featuring a range of characters from Batman to the Simpsons.
Gary Kwapisz
15 years experience drawing for book publisher characters ranging from Conan to Harvey Pekar. After working in comics he went on to illustrate books and work on movies. He is now getting back to comics after 10 years with his new civil war graphic novel, Civil War Adventure.
Civil War Adventure Series. Real history : stories of the war that divided America / Chuck Dixon, Gary Kwapisz.
Publisher: History Graphics Press, p2009, c2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9824466-0-7 Non-fiction Grades 4-8 |
Civil War adventure --volume 2.1 Chuck Dixon, Gary Kwapisz.
Publisher: History Graphics Press, c2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9824466-1-4 Non-fiction Grades 4-8 |
Summary: Both are historically accurate graphic novels set against the background of American history. Civil War Adventure: Real History That Divided America includes 10 stories that relate to many varieties of aspects of the Civil War, plus excerpts from biographies and diaries of first hand accounts, exciting fictional stories set within historical events, a timeline and 10 maps that show the place and time of all the stories, and a fact page following each story that gives additional information. Civil War Adventure: volume 2 follows suite with different stories.
Booklist (April 15, 2010 (Vol. 106, No. 16))
Grades 5 and up. Dixon, veteran of some of comicdom’s great war titles (Alien Legion, The ’Nam, G. I. Joe), layers on historical fact and fictional human drama for this curriculum-friendly outing. There’s plenty of battlefield chaos, to be sure, but the tales are clearly a product of meticulous research and loaded with insights into the monotony and terror of fighting in a war. Short and feature-length stories that jump around the Civil War timeline and focus on the experiences of both influential officers and common soldiers are supported by short essays providing historical background, general background on things like armaments and battlefield surgery, and excerpts from actual letters home. A spiritual successor to EC’s legendary Two-Fisted Tales in capturing gritty battlefield realism and its toll on the human spirit in evocative, high-quality black-and-white art, this also makes a good companion to C. M. Butzer’s Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel (2009) and would make a solid addition to any Civil War curriculum to frame the era in a more personal way.
Why add these titles to your collection?
- Accurate information and genuine account of the Civil War
- Artwork- Choice of Black and White
- Vocabulary
- Dialect
- Varied sentence length- writing style
- High interest level for learning about the time period
Brian Food: Scope and coverage is appropriate for the target audience. It gives student's brains more of a workout per sentence than conventional books. (in a sneaky way :)
Organization: Easy to follow and consistent throughout the GN. The chronological presentation and story narrative combo are an engaging mix.
Reference Aids- Includes table of contents, chapters, glossary, cross references
http://americancivilwar.com General Civil War info
