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Some anniversaries are painful to remember, and so is today’s: the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. A while ago we told you about a graphic novel about this event, OPERATION NEMESIS: A Story of Genocide & Revenge. The book is out now and in memoriam of those who lost their lives, here’s two illustrations from the book, one by Dan Panosian above and one by Harry Bogosian, below, a student of Paul Pope.
Bogosian’s father, director/monologuist Eric, has also written a book about the Genocide, also out now.
Harry Bogosian released a statement about his piece:
“Both sides of my father’s [actor, playwright, novelist, Eric Bogosian) family are Armenian. My grandfather’s side came over before the Genocide occurred, because even before, tensions and violence against Armenians was escalating. My grandmother’s side fled to America during the Genocide, and sadly my great grandfather who went back to get more family members was killed by the Turks…. For them, it was best to leave that painful history in the past. As I got older, my father educated me on what happened and showed me our history –in fact, the piece I drew for this graphic novel is modeled after a poster that hung for years on his office wall– but still for me it was all something ancient, with no contemporary ties….”
Harry Bogosian, cartoonist / illustrator NY, NY
Human history has a lot of dark moments….the Armenian genocide is one of them. Devil’s Due has been around for a long time, and had ups, downs and all arounds, but they have a very interesting project coming out in April called Operation Nemesis: A Story of Genocide & Revenge a graphic novel honoring the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In 1915, Talaat Pasha, leader of the Turkish Ottomon Empire ordered the mass execution of every Armenian within his nation’s borders, resulting in the death of over 1,500,000 victims. Writer Josh Blaylocl and artist Hoyl Silva tell the story of Soghomon Tehlirian, an Armenian survivor who killed Pasha on the streets of Berlin… and walked away from court a free man.
Besides Blaylock and Hoyt, Greg & Fake Studio provide the colors, and David Krikorian and Thomas Dardarian are listed as producer and co-producer respectively. Pin-ups will be provided by Dan Panosian, Sedat Oezgen, and Harry Bogosian, son of monologist Eric Bogosian, and formerly a student of Paul Pope.
Bogosian Sr. has a prose book on the same topic coming out later.
This should have been in black and white.
Why is that Serhend?
The coloring is pretty generic and makes something as heavy as genocide look lighthearted somehow. why would you use such a bright teal on so much of a background in one of the panels for example. black and white lends itself to the art and subject-matter better. It feel like the coloring is there to compensate for the lack of back grounds. if anything, they could have went with 60% or darker screen tones instead of this and made it work.