The long anticipated second installment of Julian Lawrence's trilogy (based on Stephen Crane's work) is here! The Red Drip of Courage finds our hero, Drippy the Newsboy, preparing to go to war with the enemy. After several false rumours (and, presumably, editorial retractions) in the Gazette, the boys are finally on the march. But their enthusiasm for action is soon extinguished by the harsh reality of conflict with the Forbidden Zone's Army of Fire. Will the Drippytown troop make it home in one piece? And if they do, will they be intact?

Julian Lawrence is an award-winning artist and illustrator specializing in comic books. Born in England and raised bilingual in Québec, his work has been published and displayed internationally by Fantagraphics Books, Les Editions des Plaines, National Film Board of Canada, Penguin Books, Cartoon Network and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Julian lives in Vancouver, Canada and teaches courses in contemporary comics at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

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"The Red Drip of Courage has a retro-comic strip feel like something that might appear alongside the Katzenjammer Kids. . . One might mistake the Drippy stories for parody, or even irreverence, but Lawrence is doing a great job of taking Crane's themes and transforming them into something completely modern and different, while still retaining their core and, therefore, their integrity." - Comics Beat