A memoir of disaster, death, and tragedy linking the events of the nuclear meltdown to the survivors who are still dealing with its affects.
April 26, 1986, Chernobyl: the reactor core of the nuclear power plant begins to melt. It is the greatest nuclear disaster of the twentieth century. A cloud laden with radionuclides travels thousands of miles in every direction, contaminating a populace unaware of its danger and who cannot protect themselves. At that time, Emmanuel Lepage was 19 years old watching and listening, incredulous, to the news on television. 22 years later, April 2008: he travels to Chernobyl to report, both in writing and drawings, about the lives of the survivors and their children living on the highly contaminated land. Upon making the decision to travel there, Emmanuel has the feeling that he is defying death, and when he finds himself on a train to Ukraine, where the old power station is located, a question keeps popping up in his mind: What am I doing here?
Emmanuel Lepage was born in 1966 in Saint-Brieuc. In 1983, the newspaper Ouest-France started featuring some of Lepage's illustrations. The same year, they also published the artist's first full album, La Fin du monde aura-t-elle lieu?, paid for out of Lepage's own pocket. Creator of the fanzine VOLAPUK, he had two albums of the Aventures de Kelvinn published by Ouest-France before he got his break with the major international comics publishers. In 1990, Le Lombard took on two volumes of L'Envoyé, written by Georges Pernin, based on Huguette Carrière's novel. He and the writer Dieter then got the series Nevé into Glénat. With his elegant drawing style and remarkable gift as a colorist, he got the recognition he deserved when he joined the prestigious Aire Libre collection at Dupuis in collaboration with the writer Anne Sibran. La Terre sans mal reconstructs the lives of Amazonian Indians with incredible authenticity, as perceived by a French ethnologist while World War II was raging in Europe. He later continued with Aire Libre with the striking two-part series Muchacho.
ISBN: 9781684054602
Author: Emmanuel Lepage
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 20 August 2019
Publisher: IDW
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (mm): 277 x 185 x 18
Weight (kg): 0.748
