A review by alarra
Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics by Osbert Sitwell, Hannah Berry, Eddie Campbell, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, Liesbeth de Stercke, Kathryn Immonen, Charles Sorley, Danica Novgorodoff, Peter Kuper, Robert Graves, Stuart Immonen, Simon Gane, Stephen R. Bissette, Kevin Huizenga, Garth Ennis, Siegfried Sassoon, Pat Mills, Anders Nilsen, Thomas Hardy, Francis Ledwidge, Sarah Glidden, Hunt Emerson, Patrick MacGill, Isabel Greenberg, George Pratt, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Carol Tyler, Luke Pearson, Rupert Brooke, Phil Winslade, David Hitchcock, Rudyard Kipling, James Lloyd, Sammy Harkham, Lilli Carré, Chris Duffy

3.0

A book of poems and songs - both well known and less familiar - from and about World War I, interpreted by a group of cartoonists. The ones that really struck me, where I felt the pictures really added to the words, were slightly different takes on the horrors of war; not graphic illustrations, but simple drawings of events and people around it in a way that made the words land all the harder.

The standouts for me:
All the Hills and Vales Along by Charles Sorley, adapted by Kevin Huizenga
The General by Siegfried Sassoon, story written by Garth Ennis, illustrated by Phil Winslade
The Dancers by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, adapted by Lilli Carre
The Next War by Osbert Sitwell, adapted by Simon Gane