![]() A maze of trenches overflows with infantry. A convoy of horse-drawn supply wagons trots forward. He focuses on thousands of British troops, beginning with a general strolling the grounds of a mansion. It moves from left to right, chronologically, but also travels from behind the lines to the front-line fighting, then back to the rear again. Sacco’s black-and-white depiction of one of the deadliest and most infamous battles of the First World War is overwhelming and wondrous, much vaster than you can take in at one glance. Veteran war journalist-cartoonist Joe Sacco’s latest project “The Great War” isn’t so much a book, as just one drawing-an “illustrated panorama” of “July, 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme.” But what an epic, bloody drawing. Facebook Email This article is more than 9 years old. ![]()
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