How War Begins

Dispatches from the Ukrainian Invasion

Igort, Jamie Richards

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English

Miscellaneous
05 July 2024

Graphic novels; Graphic Novel

"""The collapsing bodies look like marionettes. The clouds of dust captured by drones have a surreal beauty. The crumpling buildings look like houses of cards. Even so, it's upsetting, panic-inducing. How can you not think about the human lives, just like your own, buried under that rubble?"" 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 cartoon simplicity to photorealism, 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."

By: Igort
Translated by: Jamie Richards
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 256mm, Width: 186mm,
ISBN: 9781683969242
ISBN 10: 1683969243
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 05 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Igort (Igor Tuveri), b. 1958, is a prolific award-winning Italian cartoonist and the founder 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 Book Fair. He is also a film director and directed the movie adaptation in 2019. His previous works of graphic journalism include Russian Notebooks and Nomadic Pages. Jamie Richards is an Italian-to-English translator from Southern California currently based in Milan, Italy. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa.

Reviews for How War Begins: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Invasion

"A fascinating and insightful look at civilian perseverance in an active war zone.-- ""Cinema Sentries"" A harrowing work of graphic journalism. ... These dispatches make the scope of the war (""nothing epic, no glory: only misery"") both easier to grasp and that much harder to witness.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" How War Begins is full of well-chosen details that bring the human element of the invasion to the forefront.-- ""The Arts STL"""