#igort

da: Frammenti allo specchio - Una coproduzione Igor Toveri - Daniele Brolli per Frigidaire

This is a graphic novel with two sections. The first section is stories of survivors of the Holodomor (when Stalin tried to starve Ukraine to death by creating a famine in 1932-1933) that includes their stories of survival and also their feelings on soviet rule in general. The second half is about Russia in the then modern day of the aughts. It focuses a lot on Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist who was gunned down in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building after returning from one of her repeated trips to Chechnya where she sent back reports of the atrocities committed by the Russian Army. Her murder is "unsolved" by which I mean "If it wasn't Putin directly, it was someone at that level".

How War Begins by Igort

Reports from the first 100 days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Not for the faint-hearted.

1992 Yuri Russian Astronaut Swatch by Igort

Igort - pseudonym of Igor Tuveri - is the illustrator of the graphic novel based on the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. That adorable comic design of Yuri is what decorates this quirky collectible Swatch! Yuri was the first man in space. With the cold war in full swing the Space Race was an era for dreams and firsts. In 1961 he made a 108 minute orbital flight. A little over 30 years later he was immortalized once again with the help of Igort and Swatches.

BRUTUS No.483 (2001)  “Mirror” by Igort (3)