How War Begins HC

How War Begins HC – In this real-time work of graphic journalism (posted serially on Facebook), the cartoonist Igort uses the medium of comics to depict the telephone testimonies of Ukrainians as Russia invaded in 2022. In vignettes that grow ever more horrifying – infiltrating spies, bombed cities, recorded accounts of children whose parents were murdered in front of their eyes, and more – Igort also relays the events that led up to the invasion, such as the torture and killing of human rights activists. He tells stories of individual struggle and suffering with no resolutions because they are still happening: Of Tetiana, who fled in the middle of the night with her children and whose car broke down on the steppe. And Maksim, who lived in Belgium and went for a five-day family visit and who could not return home when his mother died of COVID due to martial law.
In art styles that veer from cartoony simplicity to photorealistic, depending on what the moment demands, Igort paints portraits and scenes of ordinary people trying to survive among almost 10,000 civilian deaths.

How War Begins is an important document of the past, the present, and the future.Igort (Igor Tuveri), b. 1958, is a prolific award-winning Italian cartoonist and thefounder of Oblomov Press,

a comics publisher. He is best known for his graphic novel 5 is the Perfect Number, which won the Book of the Year award at the Frankfurt BookFair. He is also a film director and directed the movie adaptation in 2019. His previousworks of graphic journalism include Russian Notebooks and Nomadic Pages.