Igor Karash
Victor: A Soldier's Story Graphic Novel. July 2019. This body of work was commissioned by the writer duo—sister and brother Luba and Eugene Ostashevsky who are professional writers and descendants of a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad . Victor, their grandfather, left a memoir about the years of his youth during the blockade and as a soldier at the Battle of Stalingrad. I was asked to produce a preliminary cover design and 20 pages of narrative illustrations for the graphic novel's prologue. All work was done digitally, but to evoke a hand-drawn, lithographic style echoing books of the
Soviet Era of in the 1930’s and 1940’s and to celebrate the great graphic and illustration legacy
of St. Petersburg (Leningrad).