title: True Brit: Celebrating The Comic Book Artists Of England
author:  George Khoury 
description: Illustrated with copious samples, this fascinating collection gives much valuable information about the British artists who have helped transform comics since the 1980s. American readers have admired the work of writers such as Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, but they may not have realized how much the success of those scripts has depended on the talents of fellow Brit artists. Beginning with a brief history of the British comic industry, the bulk of this work consists of 21 short interviews with or essays about major creators. The list includes Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke), Mark Buckingham (Miracle Man), Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), David Lloyd (V for Vendetta), Dave McKean (every Sandman cover), Kevin O'Neill (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and Barry Windsor-Smith (Conan). There's enough information here to suggest why skilled British cartoonists were ready to leap into post-Comics-Code-Authority American comics. The big question is whether there is any such thing as "British comic art" anymore; the answer may be that these artists helped make comics the lively international literary field it is today. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Froude's History of England
  
  
  ### Charles Kingsley
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  There appeared a few years since a 'Comic History of England,' duly
  
  
  caricaturing and falsifying all our great national events, and
  
  
  representing the English people, for many centuries back, as a mob of
  
  
  fools and knaves, led by the nose in each generation by a few arch-
  
  
  fools and arch-knaves. Some thoughtful persons regarded the book
  
  
  with utter contempt and indignation; it seemed to them a crime to
  
  
  have written it; a proof of 'banausia,' as Aristotle would have
  
  
  called it, only to be outdone by the writing a 'Comic Bible.' After
  
  
  a while, however, their indignation began to subside; their second
  
  
  thoughts, as usual, were more charitable than their first; they were
  
  
  not surprised to hear that the author was an honest, just, 