War Stories
Illustrated history, factually sourced

History’s war stories, told as a comic you fall into.

Real battles, real people, real sources — drawn panel by panel and built to be read in one cinematic scroll.

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English longbowmen loosing arrows at French knights bogged in mud, cel-shaded comic art.

No. 01 · Hundred Years' War

Agincourt

The collection

Each one its own kind of last stand

One is ready to read now. The rest are in the studio, being drawn.

English longbowmen loosing arrows at French knights bogged in mud, cel-shaded comic art.
Hundred Years' War

Agincourt

Agincourt · 1415

9 min readRead
A Black Hawk helicopter low over a smoky city skyline at dusk, cel-shaded comic art.
Somali Civil War

Black Hawk Down

Mogadishu · 1993

9 min readRead
Japanese warplanes diving over a harbor full of burning battleships at dawn, cel-shaded comic art.
World War II · Pacific

Pearl Harbor

Hawaii · December 1941

9 min readRead
ANZAC soldiers scrambling up steep cliffs from a beach under fire at dawn, cel-shaded comic art.
World War I

Gallipoli

Dardanelles · 1915–16

9 min readRead
French soldiers holding a shattered trench in a cratered moonscape under shellfire, cel-shaded comic art.
World War I

Verdun

Western Front · 1916

9 min readRead
WWI soldiers climbing out of a trench into smoke and barbed wire, cel-shaded comic art.
World War I

The Somme

Western Front · 1916

9 min readRead
An ancient army's curved line surrounding a vast packed mass of Roman soldiers, cel-shaded comic art.
Second Punic War

Cannae

Cannae · 216 BC

9 min readRead
Union soldiers making a stand in a smoky thicket as Confederate lines charge, cel-shaded comic art.
American Civil War

Shiloh

Tennessee · 1862

9 min readRead
Texian defenders on a mission wall at dawn facing a vast army, cel-shaded comic art.
Texas Revolution

The Alamo

San Antonio · 1836

9 min readRead
Norman knights charging up a slope toward a Saxon shield wall, cel-shaded comic art.
Norman Conquest

Hastings, 1066

Hastings · 1066

9 min readRead
US Marines struggling up a black volcanic ash slope toward a looming mountain, cel-shaded comic art.
World War II · Pacific

Uncommon Valor

Iwo Jima · 1945

9 min readRead
British infantry in a hollow square repelling French cavalry in smoke, cel-shaded comic art.
Napoleonic Wars

The Last Gamble

Waterloo · 1815

9 min readRead
American soldiers advancing across a muddy, shell-torn ridge in the rain, cel-shaded comic art.
World War II · Pacific

The Typhoon of Steel

Okinawa · 1945

9 min readRead
A Spitfire banking against a blue sky streaked with vapor trails over English fields, cel-shaded comic art.
World War II · Air War

The Few

Britain · 1940

9 min readRead
Union and Confederate lines firing across a smoke-wreathed cornfield, cel-shaded comic art.
American Civil War

The Bloodiest Day

Antietam · 1862

9 min readRead
A city street at night lit by flares and fire, soldiers taking cover, cel-shaded comic art.
Vietnam War

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

Vietnam · 1968

9 min readRead
Fighter jets flying low over a desert at dawn toward distant airfields, cel-shaded comic art.
Arab–Israeli Wars

Six Days

Middle East · June 1967

9 min readRead
Mounted Plains warriors charging across a grassy ridge toward cavalry, cel-shaded comic art.
Great Sioux War

The Greasy Grass

Little Bighorn · 1876

9 min readRead
Allied cannon firing on a besieged colonial town at night, cel-shaded comic art.
American Revolution

The World Turned Upside Down

Yorktown · 1781

9 min readRead
An American rifleman aiming from behind a tree in an autumn forest, cel-shaded comic art.
American Revolution

The Turning Point

Saratoga · 1777

9 min readRead
A lone Soviet soldier in the shattered window of a ruined apartment building at dusk, cel-shaded comic art.
World War II

Battle of Stalingrad

Stalingrad · 1942–43

15 min readRead
Ranks of Civil War soldiers advancing across an open field toward a smoke-wreathed ridge, cel-shaded comic art.
American Civil War

The High-Water Mark

Gettysburg · July 1863

9 min readRead
American soldiers in snowy foxholes in a frozen pine forest with distant tanks, cel-shaded comic art.
World War II · Ardennes

Nuts

Belgium · Dec 1944 – Jan 1945

9 min readRead
Dive bombers plunging toward a burning aircraft carrier on the open ocean, cel-shaded comic art.
World War II · Pacific

Five Minutes at Midway

Midway · June 1942

9 min readRead
A briefcase chained to a wrist washing up on a moonlit shore, cel-shaded comic art.
World War II · Deception

Operation Mincemeat

Mediterranean · 1943

9 min readRead
An officer in white Arab robes on a camel atop a desert dune at sunset, cel-shaded comic art.
World War I · Arab Revolt

Lawrence of Arabia

Arabia · 1916–1918

9 min readRead
American soldiers wading ashore toward a smoke-shrouded beach under fire, cel-shaded comic art.
World War II · Normandy

Bloody Omaha

Omaha Beach · 6 June 1944

9 min readRead
A Spartan king in crested helmet and red cloak standing in a narrow pass before a vast army, cel-shaded comic art.
Greco-Persian Wars

The Hot Gates

Thermopylae · 480 BC

9 min readRead
Samurai on a stone sea wall watching a vast armada as a typhoon sky gathers, cel-shaded comic art.
Mongol Invasions of Japan

The Divine Wind

Hakata Bay · 1274 & 1281

9 min readRead
A Sikh soldier standing defiant on a stone rampart as a vast force masses on the hills, cel-shaded comic art.
British India · North-West Frontier

The Twenty-One

Saragarhi · 12 September 1897

9 min readRead

How it’s made

Accurate enough to trust. Alive enough to finish.

01

Sourced from history

Every story is adapted from cited accounts — memoirs, archives, and well-documented histories. The words carry the facts, with sources listed at the end of each read.

02

Illustrated as a comic

Each beat is drawn in one consistent cel-shaded style. The art sets the mood and the tension; it never invents a fact the text doesn't support.

03

Read as a scroll

No menus to fight, no panels to click. One long cinematic scroll — image beside narration — that you fall into and don't climb out of until the last line.

About

History is dramatic by default. It just gets buried.

War Stories exists to dig the drama back out — the stakes, the turning points, the ordinary people who held on longer than anyone had a right to. Each piece is short, sourced, and built to be read start to finish in a single sitting.

Full transparency: the scripts are written by AI from cited sources, and every illustration is AI-generated. We work to keep the history accurate — the art is there to set the scene, not to document it, so treat the pictures as stylized impressions rather than real photographs.

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