Trench Dogs

Ian Densford’s Trench Dogs, published by the Naval Institute Press, is a single-issue comic that launched in 2018 and continues to resonate. It offers a gritty, human-scale look at the brutal realities of World War I trench warfare, with Densford handling both writing and art to create a personal, visceral experience. This series matters for bringing a military history publisher’s perspective to the comics medium, focusing on the everyday soldiers and their canine companions amid the horrors of the Western Front.