World War II

I can't help but feel like World War II legitimizes media. Nobody respected comics until Art Spiegelman made Maus. After that, people had to respect the form.

The subject is a powerful one. Several superpowers were involved. Genocide was attempted, as was global domination. These are the kinds of words that are bandied about in fictional works. It is beyond the scope of normal life. It is beyond the scope of normal international war. If you want to tell a story beyond any scope, you can draw from WW2 and be both incredible and real.

Of course, what grabs people the most are the stories of individuals. Stories about survivors. Stories about individual soldiers. Stories about friends, family, even industry workers. There are countless aspects that you can draw from to make a story.

WW2 is not a subject you want to take too lightly, though. And you don't want to oversaturate the market with stories in the same vein. However, it is a very large and very powerful subject, one that you may want to consider learning about and writing about. The audience always eats it up.