![]() ![]() The plan failed and almost 20,000 Allied soldiers were killed in a matter of hours. On July 1, 1916, the British Empire unleashed a massive offensive against Germany, hoping to turn the tide in World War I. In “ The Great War,” the cartoonist casts his eye on the Battle of the Somme, which contained one of the bloodiest days in all of human history. Joe Sacco’s latest war comic also bends the rules of a typical graphic novel, but in a much different way. It was an unorthodox experience that grew more engrossing as you sifted through all that material. Last year, Chris Ware wowed readers with his award-winning “ Building Stories,” a collection of comics, pamphlets and broadsheets that came housed in a giant box and told one unified story. But a handful of the medium’s masters beg to differ: There are elements of this art form that just can’t be re-created on a glowing screen. Print-is-dead forecasters keep saying the future of comic books is digital. ![]()
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