COMIC BOOK IN PROGRESS.
COMIC BOOK IN PROGRESS.
As we near the 80th Anniversary of WW2's D-Day we remember the men who fought that war as heroes. We often forget that they were also humans. This Comic Book shows their humanity. PTSD followed home soldiers before we knew the name for it, and we didn't talk about the honorable soldiers were also gay men.
The days are approaching fast and we’re making preparations. We will have Part #1 as a 100 page trade release at our table.
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This is the work of decades... I just never had the right medium to tell this story.
Then I rediscovered Comic Books.
Here are your Trigger Warnings: This is a story about PTSD before we called it that, and the gay men in service to their country in WW2 and the friends who tried to protect them.
~ M.M. Dumas
~ SGT. NICHOLAS CRUM, COMBAT ENGINEER UNITED STATES ARMY
Writer: M.M. Dumas
Issue 1
The Lucky Ones: In Training
Cover Artist: C. Peña
Interior Artist: C. Peña
Issue 2
The Lucky Ones: Travel
Cover Artist: C. Peña
Graphics and Letters: M. Waggoner
Issue 3
The Lucky Ones: St. Lo
Cover Artist: B. Donahue
Issue 4
The Lucky Ones: The Job
Cover Artist: C. Peña
The origin story of this comic begins more than 40 years ago when my father started (finally) telling me stories of his War Years. By 2005 I had a screenplay based on these stories. But it languished in the back of a filing cabinette for nearly a decade.
I met a wonderful comic artist in 2008 who became a very close friend. In 2014 we began a webcomic, just for the fun of it, based sort of on a Shakespeare play. The fun and challenge of that project got me to dust off a few of the screenplays that were moldering in the files. The Lucky Ones managed to float to the top of that pile.
I'm just plugging away at this comic book creation thing. . This would not be possible without the help of an incredible artist named Christian Peña and a letterer who has taken me under his wing named Michael Waggoner, along with the generous assistance of the Independent Comic Community in many corners of Facebook.
We will be letting you know here and at our Facebook Page how the journey to WW2 comic book, and on to graphic novel, is going.
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