By Michael
Cavna

For 18 long months, Matt
Bors spent his days at war. In every hot spot, his eyes trained on every
Humvee, on every rocket, on every malaria pill. It was challenging, grueling,
exhausting — and all from the safe remove of a drawing board in Portland.

As Bors labored over
illustrating the just-released David Axe graphic novel War Is Boring, he
relied for visuals on Googling his way around the world — East Timor to Chad to
Somalia to Lebanon. From home, he employed the Web and his imagination as he
provided cartoon image to Axe’s firsthand war-reporter narrative — even for the
word balloon in which Axe directs his “anger at the pundits and editorial
cartoonists who make their living criticizing wars they know nothing about and
are too cowardly to go see for themselves.”

Today, Bors, the cartoon
chronicler of global events, is hardly too cowardly. Today. the Oregon artist
who has never left the country as an adult is making that maiden voyage to a
war-torn country.

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