Interesting interview with war reporter David Axe

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Interesting interview with war reporter David Axe

Postby rskayaker » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:08 pm

Headstrong, brilliant, ballsy, conflicted, supremely talented, and maybe just a little insane. That’s my friend and colleague, the war reporter David Axe. Over the past five years or so, I’ve had the unique pleasure — and sometimes, the gut-burning pain — of being Axe’s on-again, off-again editor as he’s reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Chad, East Timor, and a thousand other awful locales. But as hot as his blog posts (or his newspaper articles, or his TV spots) have been, it’s his comic books that’ve emerged as the hottest of all. Freed from assignments, writing for himself, Axe in his graphic novels explores his inner conflicts with the same intensity he records the ones between guerrillas and counterinsurgents.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/war-is-boring-not-in-this-comic-book/
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Re: Interesting interview with war reporter David Axe

Postby BigFire » Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:56 am

This was the book Fareed Zakaria's show (GPS) on CNN recommended this morning.

He says it is good and a quick read.
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Re: Interesting interview with war reporter David Axe

Postby JamesInTheWorld » Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:25 pm

Cool Name

Makes me want to change my name to James Crowbar



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Re: Interesting interview with war reporter David Axe

Postby RYP » Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:10 am

David sent me a copy of his book and I liked it. He gets into the emo shit pretty well. The only thing missing is the actual story of what he is doing. But hey he is young. It seems to be a new trend. Started by a froggy journo on his trips to Afghanistan.


Buy his book (that was for you James)
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Re: Interesting interview with war reporter David Axe

Postby JamesInTheWorld » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:44 pm

Damn dude - you are not going to hate on him just a little, you disappoint me


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Re: Interesting interview with war reporter David Axe

Postby RYP » Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:30 pm

I only hate on people that need to be hated on. The rest get a free pass. Folks who actually get out there, give us insight and put there shit out there for people to see are OK in my book.
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