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Churchill

Churchill

Walking with Destiny
Graphic NovelsBiography
Pages
1152
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

Churchill: A Graphic Biography is a comics account of the life of Winston Churchill, written by Vincent Delmas and drawn by Christophe Regnault and Alessio Cammardella, with the Churchill historian François Kersaudy as consultant. Andrew Roberts, whose own single-volume biography Walking with Destiny appeared the same year as the French original, contributes the foreword.

The book moves from Churchill's upbringing and his early military career, through his rise in British politics, to the premiership and the years of the Second World War and the confrontation with Nazi Germany. It is drawn in a clear, unfussy realist style, and the form does the work you would want it to do: decades of parliamentary manoeuvre compress into a page, and the decisions that get taught as dates get a face and a room to happen in.

It was first published in French by Glénat in the series Ils ont fait l'Histoire, and appears in English as a single collected volume from Dead Reckoning in the US and SelfMadeHero in the UK. Readers coming to Churchill for the first time will find it a fast, competent orientation; readers who already know the period will find it a compression rather than a revision.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

InformativeIntellectualReflective

Genres

Graphic Novels Biography World War II History Comics Military History

Authors

A
Alessio Cammardella

Alessio Cammardella is an Italian comics artist and freelance concept artist. He drew the two-volume Churchill for Ils ont fait l'Histoire, the historical biography series co-published by Glénat and Fayard, working with the writer Vincent Delmas and the artist Chris Regnault; the books appeared in 2018 and 2019. He went on to draw El Alamein (2023) for Glénat's tank-warfare series Les Grandes Batailles de Chars, and Cachemire with Gaëtan Petit. He joined Giuliano Monni's GGStudio in 2013 and tea...

C
Christophe Regnault

Christophe Regnault, who signs his work Chris Regnault and occasionally "Bis", is a French comics artist. Born in 1982, he studied academic drawing in Lyon and began his career illustrating role-playing games, institutional comics and the video-game press before joining Glénat, where he has specialised in historical comics. He drew Chasseurs de Scoops (2012) and Philippe le Bel (2014), the album that opened the Ils ont fait l'Histoire series, and the two-volume adaptation of H. G. Wells's The In...

V
Vincent Delmas

Vincent Delmas is a French writer for television, film and comics. He trained in cinema and at the Conservatoire Européen d'Écriture Audiovisuelle in Paris and spent time developing television drama before turning to comics, where he created the thriller series Synchrone for Le Lombard. He is a regular contributor to Ils ont fait l'Histoire, the historical biography series co-published by Glénat and Fayard, co-writing Charlemagne (2014), Elisabeth Ière (2016), the two-volume Churchill (2018) and...

Frequently asked questions

  • Is this book part of a larger series?

    This work is part of the French historical comic series titled Ils ont fait l'Histoire, which features graphic biographies of various influential figures such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Abraham Lincoln.

  • How does the English edition differ from the original French publication?

    The original French version was released as two separate hardcover volumes, whereas the English-language edition is consolidated into a single-volume paperback.

  • Does the book include any historical context beyond the graphic narrative?

    The volume concludes with a series of informational pages that provide supplementary historical background on Churchill and the war, alongside an introduction by historian François Kersaudy.