Friday 10 August 2012

Comics on the Peace of Utrecht

Some time ago a Dutch website devoted to the Peace of Utrecht was discussed on this blog. Apparently, a series of comics on this peace treaty, and the preceding war, is made by various artists. Several sample pages can be found at the following url:
http://www.vredevanutrecht2013.nl/Home/Over/Vrede-van-Utrecht-Stript.aspx
It is nice to see such attention to this important event in European history.

The text is in Dutch only, but I think that the drawings are clear enough.The text, and coverage of historical events, seem to suffer a bit from oversimplification (only judging from these few sample pages). Somehow Germany existed already in 1700 and, there is the suggestion that the war was between France and German, with England and the Dutch Republic helping Germany.
But fair enough, it is not an Osprey publication :-)

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