She had left him because of his heavy drinking. Hogancamp's idea for Marwencol stemmed from that anger, as well as from the illustrations of WWII he'd drawn in his "past life. "When the teenagers kicked my head to pieces, they wiped, I mean, everything. That "something" was Marwen (the "col" was added as a nod to his friend, Colleen). I like dames,” Mark (the character) explains. ", Yes. They are my little actors and actresses." The village composition changes with each of Hogancamp's photoshoots. -Collectors Weekly. It’s a chan. As stated in the previous question, it was actually magazine photographer David Naugle who played the biggest role in Mark's work making it out into the world. /* >