Un printemps à Tchernobyl

Emmanuel Lepage’s Un printemps à Tchernobyl (Futuropolis, 2012–present) is a singular, deeply personal graphic novel that documents the artist’s journey into the radioactive exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Combining travelogue, reportage, and memoir, Lepage serves as both writer and artist, rendering the eerie, overgrown landscape and its resilient inhabitants in luminous watercolor. This single-issue work stands as a haunting meditation on memory, catastrophe, and the quiet persistence of life in a place frozen in time.