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Young Dr. Warrenby ~comic-chic

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This drawing is a character study for a new face who will be appearing (eventually!) in the pages of my webcomic, The Dreamer. He's John Warren, a doctor who served with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Amputation without anesthetic couldn't have been fun... for patient or doctor.

My friend Dr. Andre is an 18th century reenactor and he told me a great story about Dr. Warren. When the British were evacuating Boston at the end of the siege in 1776, they left behind stores of medicines. The Americans, who were stripped bare of supplies of all sorts, were ecstatic with their discovery. But it was John Warren who found out (in time) that the medicines were tainted with traces of arsenic. Uh... good call, John. The dastardly deed was more than likely done not by the British Army, but by their really angry wives who lost a thousand of their husbands at Bunker Hill. Hell hath no fury and all that...

After the war Dr. Warren (a Harvard grad himself) set up the School of Medicine at Harvard College. Pretty cool, eh?

There are more great John Warren stories, but you'll either have to read your history books to find them or wait and read them in The Dreamer.

In The Dreamer John Warren is the youngest of Alan's four cousins. John is younger, better educated, and more, well, arrogant. Having grown up in the same house together, Alan and John are more like brothers than cousins, and once he shows up in the pages of The Dreamer I have a lot of fun with him.

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~comic-chic Oct 4, 2010 Professional

Revere, Dawes and Prescott warned this guy's older brother, Dr. Joseph Warren and Sam Adams who were hiding out in Lexington with John Hancock because they were wanted men. Dr. Joseph Warren was the patriot, Dr. John Warren (his youngest brother) went on to serve in the army and later created the Harvard school for medicine. There's also another Warren who was associated with Sam Adams and pops up in history books, but he was unrelated to this family.