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Powerful graphic journalism that highlights the contrasting realities of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist grappling with their own individual experiences of Russia's war on Ukraine--collected, edited, and illustrated by award-winning author Nora Krug Immediately after Russia began its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nora Krug reached out to two anonymous subjects--"K.," a Ukrainian journalist, and "D.," a Russian artist--and began what would become a year of correspondence. Based on her weekly interviews with K. and D., Krug created this collection of illustrated accounts that chronicles two contrasting viewpoints from opposing sides of the first year in this ongoing war. With millions displaced, injured, or killed as a result of the invasion, Krug presents a look at the devastating effects on an everyday, individual level. K.'s diary documents a year of emotional and existential distress. She experiences loss in every sense of the word: the death of those close to her, the disconnection from her family and friends, and the devastation of her country--but her account is also a story about bravery and survival in the face of dire uncertainty. In juxtaposition, D.'s narrative details his disdain for his government's murderous actions and his attempts at emigrating his family abroad. He navigates his own struggle with cultural identity, guilt, and lack of action in the face of a tyrannical regime--a perspective that is necessary in challenging readers to confront the political actions of their own countries. Krug approaches Diaries of War with the immense skill and thoughtfulness required to document these two complicated experiences for the purpose of encouraging critical thinking. Published as an Op-Comic series with the Los Angeles Times, with a portion of the entries unique to this book, Diaries of War is a harrowing real-time record of an international conflict that continues to devastate countless lives.… (altro)
Nora Krug offers up two different views of the Russo-Ukraine War.
Called K. to protect her identity, the first narrative is from a Ukrainian citizen who immigrated from Russia and is now a journalist covering the war in the field. She and her journalist husband zip back and forth between Kyiv, the front, and Copenhagen where they have taken their children for refuge.
D. is a Russian who feels guilty by association about Putin's aggression and worried about being drafted into Putin's army. He leaves his family and his home to wander around Europe looking for a new place to live, while fretting that the only place he wants to live is in St. Petersburg. He's a wishy-washy jackass, which I unfortunately found relatable.
Each two-page spread in the book represents a week in the first year of the war, with K. giving her updates on the left side and D. taking the right. Their slice-of-life vignettes and ongoing opinions on the war are pretty engaging.
My biggest problem with this book is that it gets lumped in with graphic novels, when it is really just an illustrated text -- even if that text is (or given the appearance of being) hand lettered. At the very start of the book, we are given a couple non-sequential pictures layered between two or three large caption boxes. But very quickly the layout transforms to one little picture in the middle of two to four caption boxes that take up two-thirds to three-quarters of each page. If they had simply typeset the text it would be easier to read and perhaps the picture could at least be made a little bigger.
It doesn't help that the faces of the people in the illustrations are frequently cropped to show only chins or cheeks or are left entirely out of the picture. It adds a little to the anonymity aspect, but it also makes it hard to connect with the people depicted as human.
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Contents: Introduction -- Winter - Spring -- Spring - Summer -- Summer - Fall -- Fall - Winter -- Acknowledgments -- Image Sources -- About the Author
Powerful graphic journalism that highlights the contrasting realities of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist grappling with their own individual experiences of Russia's war on Ukraine--collected, edited, and illustrated by award-winning author Nora Krug Immediately after Russia began its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nora Krug reached out to two anonymous subjects--"K.," a Ukrainian journalist, and "D.," a Russian artist--and began what would become a year of correspondence. Based on her weekly interviews with K. and D., Krug created this collection of illustrated accounts that chronicles two contrasting viewpoints from opposing sides of the first year in this ongoing war. With millions displaced, injured, or killed as a result of the invasion, Krug presents a look at the devastating effects on an everyday, individual level. K.'s diary documents a year of emotional and existential distress. She experiences loss in every sense of the word: the death of those close to her, the disconnection from her family and friends, and the devastation of her country--but her account is also a story about bravery and survival in the face of dire uncertainty. In juxtaposition, D.'s narrative details his disdain for his government's murderous actions and his attempts at emigrating his family abroad. He navigates his own struggle with cultural identity, guilt, and lack of action in the face of a tyrannical regime--a perspective that is necessary in challenging readers to confront the political actions of their own countries. Krug approaches Diaries of War with the immense skill and thoughtfulness required to document these two complicated experiences for the purpose of encouraging critical thinking. Published as an Op-Comic series with the Los Angeles Times, with a portion of the entries unique to this book, Diaries of War is a harrowing real-time record of an international conflict that continues to devastate countless lives.
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Called K. to protect her identity, the first narrative is from a Ukrainian citizen who immigrated from Russia and is now a journalist covering the war in the field. She and her journalist husband zip back and forth between Kyiv, the front, and Copenhagen where they have taken their children for refuge.
D. is a Russian who feels guilty by association about Putin's aggression and worried about being drafted into Putin's army. He leaves his family and his home to wander around Europe looking for a new place to live, while fretting that the only place he wants to live is in St. Petersburg. He's a wishy-washy jackass, which I unfortunately found relatable.
Each two-page spread in the book represents a week in the first year of the war, with K. giving her updates on the left side and D. taking the right. Their slice-of-life vignettes and ongoing opinions on the war are pretty engaging.
My biggest problem with this book is that it gets lumped in with graphic novels, when it is really just an illustrated text -- even if that text is (or given the appearance of being) hand lettered. At the very start of the book, we are given a couple non-sequential pictures layered between two or three large caption boxes. But very quickly the layout transforms to one little picture in the middle of two to four caption boxes that take up two-thirds to three-quarters of each page. If they had simply typeset the text it would be easier to read and perhaps the picture could at least be made a little bigger.
It doesn't help that the faces of the people in the illustrations are frequently cropped to show only chins or cheeks or are left entirely out of the picture. It adds a little to the anonymity aspect, but it also makes it hard to connect with the people depicted as human.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: Introduction -- Winter - Spring -- Spring - Summer -- Summer - Fall -- Fall - Winter -- Acknowledgments -- Image Sources -- About the Author
(Best of 2023 Project: I'm reading all the graphic novels that made it onto one or more of these lists:
• Washington Post 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2023
• Publishers Weekly 2023 Graphic Novel Critics Poll
• NPR's Books We Love 2023: Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels
This book was Honorable Mention on the PW list.) (