Let's read Tigers in the Mud as manga

[GarfunkeL]

Some jap dude illustrated one story from Carius' autobiography Tigers in the Mud, focusing on one of the battles on the Narva front in 1944. It's pretty sweet and surprisingly accurate to source. If you haven't you should read the actual book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tigers-Mud-Commander-Stackpole-Military/dp/0811729117

Unfortunately it's very short, though each page is packed with lots of details. I only have chapters 1 - 5. There's supposed to be a sixth chapter that actually ends the storyline but I haven't found it anywhere.

We're allowed to post comic book stuff still in the Playground, right?

 

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[GarfunkeL]

And that's it - told you it is sadly very short and the climax - Chapter 6 - is nowhere to be found. Or my Google-Fu fails me.

 

[Helly]

It's not just some jap dude bro, it's actually Hayao Miyazaki as in the guy who made Porco Rosso and all that.
I found it on amazon as Mōsō Nōto (link).
I'll look for some raws

 

[GarfunkeL]

I have no idea who that is.

Oh, not just some random artist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki

No wonder the attention to detail is so nice.

 

[Helly]

Alright, I just found the last chapter:

 

[GarfunkeL]

Thanks for posting it, good job.

 

[Destroid]

Thanks, I'd never read the last chapter of this before. I like this and Nausicaa a lot more than Miyazaki's movies. Unfortunately a lot of his manga are not translated.

 

[Ninjerk]

why pigs

 

[Baron Dupek]

There was mouse and cats., now pigs. Propably dogs too.

 

[Ninjerk]

I'm reasonably certain none of those animals fought in that war. There's a law about stolen valor here in the kwan you know.

 

[Helly]

 

[GarfunkeL]

why pigs

A) He did not want to draw humans.
B) He chose pigs so to distance him from the violence of war during the creation process.
C) He chose pigs so to distance the reader from the war.
D) A lulz-random artistic choice.

 

[Lorenzen]

why pigs

 

[Shadenuat]

It's even funnier, here you can see them both

 

[GarfunkeL]

He actually met Carius? Whoa, that's cool.