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Stop in and meet the creators of Hope Never To See It on Thursday Feb 20th from 11am-6:30pm.Hope Never to See It illustrates two exceptional incidents of occupational and guerrilla violence in Missouri during the American Civil War. The first is a Union spy's two-week-long murder spree targeting civilians, and the second is a pro-Confederate guerrillas' mutilation of almost 150 U.S. troops.
The men leading the atrocities (Jacob Terman, alias Harry Truman, and “Bloody" Bill Anderson) weren't so different. Both the Union spy and the infamous Confederate guerrilla claimed to be avenging the deaths of their families, operated under orders from military officials, and were hard drinkers. Their acts outline the terror inflicted on both sides of the struggle.
This book's use of sequential art displays these grisly realities to mute the war's glorification and to help prompt a modern, meaningful reconciliation with the war. The moral ambiguities contained within this story call into question our understanding of the laws of war and the ways in which wars end.
ANDREW FIALKA is associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. He has co-directed multiple digital history projects at UGA’s Center for Virtual History (eHistory.org). He lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
ANDERSON CARMAN is a sequential artist represented by Shannon Associates LLC. He has worked as a colorist for Skottie Young and illustrated several small press books such as Fear Hunters, The Oblivion Trials, Nauts, A Reign of Beasts, and more. He lives in Atlanta, GA
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