By Mark Clairmont / Muskoka Today
Today’s war stories are live by the hour on TV—gruesome and graphic as ever. In 1944, during the battle of Normandy, news from the French front was slower returning home than progress marching forward.
Eighty-two years later, a heroic and tragic story has surfaced in a personalized tale written and published—in comic book form—by Jim Dolmage, a former gym teacher at Gravenhurst High School.
The Night in Tilly’s Field is a graphic novel about his uncle Lt. Ernie Phair and “the men I interviewed who were on the battlefield and witnessed his death.”
The intended audience is teenagers to inform them specifically about the Second World War; but also about wars in general, he says. You don’t need to buy the book “I’m offering it free on line.”