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Illustration depicts the Maui trapping the sun Tamanui-Te-Ra pages 42-43 in the book 'Maui Legends of the Outcast'
By Chris Slane & Robert Sullivan

Illustration depicts Maui

From the book 'Maui Legends of the Outcast'
By Chris Slane & Robert Sullivan
Design, Storyboards, Pencils, Inks, Lettering, Colours: Chris Slane.
Script: Robert Sullivan.

Colours: Jonathan Paynter, Bill Paynter.
Technical Direction and Fonts: Bill Paynter.

48 pp colour Hardback
Godwit Publishing, New Zealand
© 1996

ISBN:1-86962-006-2

9 781869 620066

1997 Finalist LIANZA Children's Book Awards, Rusell Clark Medal, 1997 NZLA Young People's Non-Fiction Award.

Graphic novel page showing New Zealand troops moving into main front line trenches by night. Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'

Graphic novel page showing New Zealand troops working in the front lines. Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'

Graphic novel page showing the arrangement of entrenchments in the front lines. Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'

Graphic novel page showing New Zealand troops working in the front lines by night. Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'

Graphic novel page showing a day in life of New Zealand troops in the front lines. Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'

Graphic novel page showing a photograph in Ploegsteert Wood. Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'

Graphic comic page showing a young Cyril Elliott departing for enlistment. Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'

Introductory page with a photograph and text of the author's grandfather, Cyril Elliot. This book illustrates his war diary. Cyril Elliott was a teenager when he enlisted to fight in World War I, lured by the idea of exciting travel and adventure. What he found was quite different. But misery and terror were made easier by Kiwi humour, mates, and writing in his diary.

Cyril Elliott spent three years overseas with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in World War I, and fought and was injured at the Western Front. He wrote of his experiences in his diary every day.

Matt’s father still possesses two of Cyril’s war diaries, as well as postcards sent and received from home. Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'

Introductory page with a photograph of Cyril Elliot's war diary. Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'

Cover of book 'Nice Day For A War'Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'

Cover watercolour art for cover book 'Nice Day For A War'

Cartoon depicts a pack of MAGA wolves howling at the moon. Among them sits a naked Donald Trump also pretending to howl, along with a GOP elephant. They are sweating with fear as one of the MAGA wolves begins to sniff at their plump backsides. Skulls and bones lie scattered around them. Title: 'Howling with wolves'. Slane, after Paul Weber. Refers to a lithograph titled 'Howl with wolves you must' by Andreas Paul Weber, prominent lithographer, draftsman and painter, was imprisoned during the Nazi regime as he worked with the resistance circle of Ernst Niekisch.

Cartoon depicts a farming couple standing next to a rural letterbox. "Looks like someone stole your annuiversary present" says he. "Well at least he's not blaming you this year". says she to a dog. Heading reads 'Rural thefts on the rise-News'

Cartoon depicts NZFirst leader Winston Peters standing in the doorway of a western saloon, hands poised over his pistols. "Any man don't wanna form a coalition better clear on out the back." Various patrons of the bar are scrambling to get away. Refers to Clint Eastwood film 'The Unforgiven' and political turmoil among parties of the right regarding possible coalitions during the 2023 #NZPol election campaign.

Cartoon depicts a middle-aged man holding a glass under a water fall labelled 'Internet' catching water and announcing to two bystanders "Wow! This online research confirms all my beliefs exactly!" Refers to quote by Arthur C. Clarke: “Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.” #confirmationbias

Cartoon depicts two men crossing a waterway on the back of a crocodile towards an arrow sign which reads 'Polling'. “Follow me, Seymour. I have a clear pathway to power” says Chris Luxon as he & David Seymour walk across a pond on the back of a crocodile labelled 'NZFirst'. Winston Peters, for the old croc is he, smiles with one eye open.