Attention recruits! This is your orientation session for Rudek and the Bear, a webcomic I’ve been publishing on and off since 2013!
As a prelude to my graphic novel in progress, this webcomic chronicles the shenanigans surrounding a company of soldiers in the Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza–the Border Protection Corps of the Second Polish Republic–in the years 1929-1930. Rudek, a malcontent Polish soldier, meets a Belarusian smuggler named Malutki, and they form an unlikely friendship. Hijinks, as they say, ensue.
In chapter 3, the setting shifts to Minsk, where Rudek and Malutki enter the shadowy world of espionage…