The irreverent comic strip artist who's also a Marine
Since 2010, Mr. Uriarte has illustrated more than 800 comic strips under the Terminal Lance brand, along with a self-published graphic novel, The White Donkey, which hit the best-seller list after it was acquired by Little Brown in 2016. On Tuesday, Little Bown released a collection, Terminal Lance: Ultimate Omnibus, spanning nearly a decade of Mr. Uriartes work.
The Marine Corps likes to present itself with dutiful seriousness. Terminal Lance is a counterpoint to that. It is a tribute to the services permanent underclass, the young grunts who are too weary to feign enthusiasm anymore. (The strips title is derived from slang for the holder of a junior rank lance corporal who will never be promoted and thus will depart the corps as a terminal lance.)
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