![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, she might have taken a tour bus. But once the posts went viral, certain discrepancies were noted, and Filatova admitted that her accounts were "more poetry than reality." Her photos and writing were elegiac and apocalyptic, evoking the otherworldliness of the forsaken city of Pripyat. In 2004, a Ukrainian photojournalist named Elena Filatova (aka KiddofSpeed) blogged an account of her illicit motorcycle journeys though the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the area blighted by history's worst nuclear accident. I just pre-ordered my copy, based on those 25 pages. The comic is being syndicated online in six-page installments (25 pages went up today!), and will be collected between covers in a Firstsecond book next May. Today marks the launch of Spill Zone, a graphic novel from Uglies creator Scott Westerfeld ( previously) and Alex Puvilland: the tale of a brave photographer who ventures into strange, uncanny lands created by a mysterious catastrophe, and returns with images of those worlds that she sells to keep her scarred little sister whole. ![]()
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