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SelfMadeHero is the UK's leading graphic novel publisher. The company publishes ground-breaking and beautiful work by authors and artists from across the globe, from the quirky and humorous to the political and profound. We are proud to publish graphic novels and visual narratives that provoke, entertain, inspire, and inform. Spring 2016 sees the release of books by Reinhard Kleist (An Olympic Dream), Steffen Kverneland (Munch), Barbara Yelin (Irmina) and I. N. J. Culbard (The Shadow Over Innsmouth), amongst others.
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In December 1926, renowned crime novelist Agatha Christie vanished, sending shockwaves through British society. As the authorities scoured the country for her, theories and suspicions abounded: it was murder, a hoax, suicide, a publicity stunt, revenge. When she was finally located – ten days later, living under an assumed name in a hotel in Harrogate – she returned to normal life, refusing to explain what had happened. Despite Christie's reputation for final act revelations, this episode of her life would be forever shrouded in mystery.
In their intriguing graphic novel Agatha, Anne Martinetti, Guillaume Lebeau and Alexandre Franc use Christie's enigmatic disappearance as a gateway to explore the life and character of the Queen of the Whodunit. Taking in her childhood in Torquay and her early attempts at writing, the authors chart Christie's development into a free-spirited and thoroughly modern woman who, among other things, enjoyed flying, travel and surfing. As her memorable characters take on case after case, we come to understand the events that inspired their adventures and made Christie the person she became.
While her hugely successful career will be well known to many readers, this landmark graphic biography also delves into the detail of Christie's disappointments and personal difficulties in a way that paints the writer as a real person – funny, fallible and full of life. Spanning marriages and wars by way of archaeology and infidelities, Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie is an entertaining and dramatic portrait of the 20th century's best-loved crime writer, showing her triumphs, her failures and her increasingly fractious relationship with the one man she could never get the better of – her most famous creation, the fastidious Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.
Munch – Steffen Kverneland
An extraordinary and inventive graphic biography, Steffen Kverneland's Munch explores the relationships and obsessions that drove the artist behind The Scream. Using text drawn from the writings of Edvard Munch and his contemporaries, this extensively researched and beautifully drawn graphic novel debunks the familiar myth of the half-mad expressionist painter – anguished, starving and ill-treated – to reveal the artist's neglected sense of humour and optimism. Born out of a life-long fascination with all things Munch, Kverneland's award-winning seven-year project is the funniest and most entertaining portrait yet of a complex man and a pioneering artist.
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Bomb squad back from Iraq
After seven moths of living in a palace in a war zone, Whidbey Island is tame for at least one group of sailors.
No one is firing rocket or grenades at them. They arent evaluating and destroying bombs. Walking around at work doesnt require body armor, weapons and constant concentration.
Hoaxes always handled carefully
After years of war, artillery shells litter Iraq. Instead of using artillery shells as ammunition for heavy caliber guns, McGuckin said insurgents modify these shells to make them lethal as roadside bombs. Insurgents also plant improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, along roads or anywhere people may be. IEDs can be anything from a trash can to a beverage can filled with explosives and shrapnel, McGuckin said. Any container with a wire coming from it can be an explosive, he said. Any item that could be detonated was suspect. Even a dog, he said.
When IEDs were found, an EOD team was called in to handle the situation. Not every explosive was the actual target. Sometimes a device was a hoax, meant to distract team members from real IEDs placed nearby. As a team was evaluating the object, other bombs might be detonated by remote control. Or insurgents would fire missiles, launch grenades or lob mortars.
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While Det 5 was in Iraq, six people from other EOD teams were killed. No one from Det 5 was injured severely. But for Petty Officer 1st Class Brent Barto, their Humvee hitting a roadside bomb was the worst time in Iraq.
McGuckin and Barto, along with Petty Officer 1st Class Heath Nettleton and Petty Officer 2nd Class Chad Munroe, were heading to a call when a roadside bomb detonated under their Humvee.
I thought I was dead, McGuckin said.
Barto, who was the Humvees gunner, thought McGuckins legs had been blown off. Everyone had ear trauma from the detonation and the Humvees windshield was broken from peoples helmets smashing into it.
McGuckin said he was incoherent for a few seconds. A team member slapped him to bring him back to the fight. Everyone got busy, McGuckin said, as insurgents broke through the teams perimeter.
After the pace settled, McGuckin was medevaced to Baghdad for a CAT scan and MRI to be sure nothing had been jarred loose. He was back with the team as fast as he could get to them.
Luckily, no one suffered more than cuts, scratches and being shaken and stirred. Humvees have extra metal plates to protect from such road hazards. Team members are safety harnessed to the vehicle so they cant be blasted off.
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In spite of hazards and being on constant alert, McGuckin said his team is proud of their accomplishments in Iraq. Det 5 patrolled 27,000 kilometers, went on 148 missions, endured rats in their living quarters and destroyed 33,000 pounds of assorted explosives. Some was destroyed as they cleared roads of bombs and IEDs. More was destroyed after explosives were captured during raids.
Because of dangers from hoaxes, snipers and other attacks, EOD team members adapted their training to fit varied situations. McGuckin said everything they learned, the team passed on and this information is being incorporated into EOD training worldwide.
Its good to know what we learned can save someones life, McGuckin said.
The team has been nominated for Bronze Stars as well as campaign medals and combat action ribbons. The four who drove over a bomb in the Humvee have been nominated for Purple Hearts.
For them, island life could be called boring.
Detachment 5, an eight-man group from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11, recently returned to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station after 210 days in Iraq.
Lt. Mark McGuckin, officer in charge of Det 5, said he enjoyed each stress-filled day.
It was exciting, and a great opportunity, to do our job, he said. We were alert all the time. Most people would enjoy an exciting whitewater rafting vacation not being targeted by snipers while working on delicate tasks of defusing explosives.
But EOD trained sailors thrive on challenges and danger.
In addition to working with materials that could blow up at any moment, team members train to dive, parachute and rappel to a site.
Because of booby-trap dangers, McGuckin said the team only did straight-surface missions. In other words, they drove or helicoptered to a site, evaluated the situation and walked in carefully.
Assault force protects team
EOD teams with Det 5 never traveled alone. A Polish air assault unit, part of the multi-national defense force, was always with them as was a doctor and medics. The Poles also acted as translators between EOD and other Eastern European military forces in Iraq.
EOD team members and their Polish security forces trained, traveled and lived together.
Their barracks was one of Saddam Husseins former palaces which stood on an embankment near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, about a mile from the ruins of Babylon. While the palace had been ransacked, McGuckin said mosaic tiles and intricate carvings hinted at the palaces glory days.
But no one was too in awe of their surroundings. In fact, they practiced rappelling from the ramparts of the palace.
Sundays, when they werent called out, EOD and the Poles played volleyball.
We became a band of brothers, McGuckin said. Since before leaving Iraq, Web sites have been established to maintain contact with everyone.
Team went
in prepared
The team was on the ground for all its missions but traveled to Iraq equipped for any mission. Their 58,000 pounds of gear included a fast Zodiac boat and a dive chamber just in case.
Phone calls came every day sometimes two or times times. For McGuckin, the most tense moment was their first call which came only 90 minutes after they took over from another team. McGuckin said the first night mission was also tense. They had trained wearing night-vision goggles, but using the goggles during a combat mission wasnt the same as training. Even after using night-vision goggles became routine, night missions were always different from day missions.
McGuckin recalls driving through towns at night, hearing whistles as Iraqis signaled troops were in the area. Then, crouching figures moved across roofs. No one ever knew if Iraqis were simply watching the team or getting ready to call in a mortar attack, throw grenades or launch missiles.
We didnt stay in one position long, McGuckin said.
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America hosts more than 2,000 craft breweries
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But the Cardinals of the Mid-American Conference have played three Big Ten teams, including No. 2-ranked Michigan, about as tough as a team can without sneaking away with a win in the process.
If the BSU team that shows up at the Glass Bowl tonight at 7 is the same club that lost by one point to Indiana and 10 points at Purdue and eight points at Michigan, the University of Toledo's Rockets should have their hands full.
"We'll be in for a fight," said UT offensive tackle John Greco. "This one should be a good time."
This will be Ball State's first game since throwing a major scare at Michigan 10 days ago, when the Cards came up short on a late, fourth-down play from deep in UM territory before falling 34-26.
"You think the score was impressive? The film was just as impressive," said Toledo coach Tom Amstutz. "Ball State's speed matched up and they certainly belonged on the field with Michigan. They played 'em as well as anybody in the country has. And they played Indiana and Purdue tough, too. This should be a great game."
The Cardinals are 3-6 overall and 3-3 in MAC play. Toledo has won back-to-back games against Akron and Northern Illinois to improve to 4-6 and 2-4 in the league.
"We're gaining some momentum," Amstutz said. "Our younger players are getting more experience and confidence and our older guys are hungry and want to win. We've shown character and we're being rewarded for it. I think we're still a dangerous team."
The top two quarterbacks on Ball State's recruiting wish list a year ago will face off tonight.
The Cards pursued both Nate Davis and Aaron Opelt. They got the former, while the latter chose Toledo. Both true freshmen are the starters for their teams.
Davis has started six straight games and has completed 119 of 186 passes for 1,495 yards and 15 touchdowns against seven interceptions.


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SAO PAULO (AP) - IndyCar driver Tony Kanaan will ride in two stock car races in Brazil this year, competing against former Formula One driver and fellow Brazilian Rubens Barrichello in one of them.
Kanaan will be making his debut in the local series. Like Barrichello, Kanaan will be donating his earnings in Brazil to charity.
Kanaan finished ninth in this year's IndyCar season and will return to the series next year. Barrichello has yet to announce if he will be back.
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