It’s the last day of WonderCon 2019, but comics publishers still have some announcements up their sleeves. The Beat reports that IDW will publish three new English translations of French graphic novels throughout 2019, each of which is centered on a different human interest story.
The first will be Emmanuel Lepage’s “Springtime In Chernobyl,” in which Lepage tells the story of a group of Chernobyl survivors and their children. Lepage actually traveled to Chernobyl in 2008 to record what was happening in the irradiated area, and apparently often found himself asking the question: “What am I doing here?” The graphic novel records Lepage’s struggle to answer that question. IDW’s translation will release May 29, 2019.
On July 31, the publisher will release a translation of Sophie Ansel and Sam Garcia’s “Burmese Moons.” “Moons” is set during the People Power Uprising of 1988, an event in which Myanmar’s military rulers acted to crush a burgeoning revolution in that country. The graphic novel follows three displaced natives – Thazama, Moonpi, and Kim – who are forced to flee the violence and become “hostages in their own country.”
Then, on October 9, IDW will publish an English translation of Helene Aldeguer’s “After the Spring: A Story of Tunisian Youth.” Winner of the Raymond Leblanc Foundation’s Belgian Prize, “After the Spring” takes a look “at the disillusioned state of young people in Tunisia after the events of the Arab Spring” and is illustrated in “stark, beautiful black-and-white,” according to the book’s Amazon listing. Its story follows four teenagers who feel abandoned by both activists and their government, among economic turmoil and instability.
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