Research + Ideas To be continued

At first I was planning of illustrating animals in first world war but I changed my mind. Now I decided to do a comic based on true story of hero animals during the first world war. Hopefuly I will be producing three different stories.
1. Lizzie the circus elephant
2. Cher Ami the mail pigeon
3. Surgent Stubby the American dog hero.

What's next ?
Search in more depth into each of those animal story

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Reference
Lizzie's
Lizzie the elephant
Photos of Lizzie
http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/jungle/index4d3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_William_Ward_(industrialist)
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-15134.html
http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/jungle/index4d3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_William_Ward_(industrialist)
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2521&highlight=lizzie+ward


Public library ?

Cher ami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_Ami
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2059858_2059863_2060209,00.html
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmah/cherami.htm
http://www.homeofheroes.com/wings/part1/3b_cherami.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/the-heartwarming-story-of-cher-ami-the-pigeon-who-saved-200
http://www.burdr.com/2010/05/cher-ami-the-war-pigeon/

Surgent Stubby the American dog hero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_Stubby
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sgtstubby.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/sergeant-stubby-pit-bull-and-decorated-canine-war-hero
http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=15
http://www.ct.gov/mil/cwp/view.asp?a=1351&q=257892
http://stubbydog.org/2012/05/a-heros-nature/
http://www.jbmf.us/hst-ww1.aspx

Then I printed these articles as I prefer to have them soft copy. But after I read these artless about Cher Ami, Lizzie and Stubby, I realised that Sergeant Stubby have the most interesting and well known story line. So I decided to illustrate Sergeant Stubby's.

These are some key moments in his life.  I am planning of creating a A2 illustrations of sergeant stubby based on his key moments in life. in total 11 illustrations.

But then I realised that there is lack of purpose so I decided to do a comic instead.

Pages:-
1- Title
2 - Pattern
3 - Pattern
4 - (Before met the owner) Living near garbage cans to garbage = Homeless dog
5 - Turned up one day in the summer of 1917 at the Yale Bowl Training Camp
6 -  Stubby would train with the armies every morning, running and excessing with the units.
7 - Looking for German armies
8 - He was injured during a grenade attack. Receiving a large amount of shrapnel in his chest and legs.
9 - He visited wounded soldiers, boosting their morale.
10 - Caught a German spy
11 - The armies designed Stubby a jacket that look like an American military uniform and decorated it with stubby's name, rank and medals.
12 - Stubby proudly wearing his new jacket
13 - America won the war
14 - After the war he went with his owner to Georgetown university for a low schoo.
15 - Pattern
16 - illustrator's name

However, after talking to Matt, he said that is too much as I only have roughly 10 days left. He advised me to pick only 4 key moments. So I decided to pick :-

1. (Before met the owner) Living near garbage cans to garbage = Homeless dog
2. Looking for German armies
3. He visited wounded soldiers, boosting their morale.
4. Stubby proudly wearing his new jacket