A Combat Reporter Sketches The Warzone

Meet Richard Johnson, former embedded visual journalist for the Detroit Free Press. Embedded visual journalist? Johnson, who bears no relation to the Page Six editor, is a graphic artist who was sent by the Freep to Iraq as a war illustrator. The idea was to follow in the tradition of the combat sketches of World War I — and it worked beautifully.

After his stint in Detroit, Johnson moved on to become the graphic editor of Canada’s National Post.

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