Springtime in Chernobyl

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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

Reviews

"Powerful...Springtime In Chernobylis superb comics journalism that covers the facts, and Lepages account of his residency shows what we think we know isnt always reality. Comics Beat

"One of the more thought-provoking and emotionally charged releases of the summer...this is one of my picks for best graphic novel of 2019." Fanboy Factor

"Agood change of pace and enjoyable use of the sequential art form to tell an interesting and heartfelt story." Comic Book Daily

Author Bio

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'Envoye, written by Georges Pernin, based on Huguette Carri re's novel. He and the writer Dieter then got the series Neve into Glenat. 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.