Un printemps à Tchernobyl #[nn]

A lone figure walks through an eerily lush forest, backpack in hand, while a darkened industrial silhouette looms on the horizon — Emmanuel Lepage's cover for this 2012 Futuropolis graphic novel captures the strange, haunting beauty of the Chernobyl exclusion zone with quiet, painterly precision. The overgrown trees and abandoned cottage speak volumes about nature reclaiming a place humanity left behind, rendered in rich greens that feel both inviting and unsettling. Lepage handles every aspect of the work himself — writing, drawing, inking, and coloring — and that singular vision comes through unmistakably in this atmospheric scene.