The British released a comic about Gagarin

In the UK published a comic about Yuri Gagarin. So abroad began to celebrate the jubilee year: the first man went into space on 12 April 1961.


"How did you come up with the idea to create a book on this topic? "asked StarHit the journalist Pier of Bitoni, one of the authors of the 64-page graphic novel "the Day of the jury: the Road to the stars".




I always loved stories about the conquerors of space. Wrote several books on the subject, in the late 90's he worked in the team of BBC - produced documentaries about the Universe. One of them is "Creating the myth" - we did in 2001, together with the Director of "Avatar" by James Cameron. Biography of Yuri Gagarin I study since 1997. I have read so many books about him that was fit to pass this knowledge on to others. And two years ago I met two fellow Illustrator Andrew king and publisher, designer Peter Hodkinson. Together we came up with "the Day of the jury".





Why did you decide to make history as the comic?
- We wrote it for a Western man, not Russian, and in England and America "stories in pictures" are popular. This is a simple and interesting to talk about the person or event. Many people in the West don't know about Gagarin nothing but his name. And so in the name of the comic is, the name is Yuri.





- What is the image of Gagarin in your book?
- He's just not God. It is another. I believe that when ordinary people doing brave things, overcomes difficulties, it can be called a hero. Now: your Gagarin, hero!




- Coming up with the comics, you re-read books about the first cosmonaut?


I've enjoyed all the knowledge about it at different times. Making films for the BBC, I met people who knew Yuri Gagarin personally, cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and German Titov.




- Not afraid of negative reactions to the book?


- I am sad, but I understand that for the Russians I am just another narrow-minded Western man telling the story about their hero people like Yuri Gagarin. But our comic based on real historical events. We write not only about Gagarin, but also about the Queen. This brave man, who survived a link to Kolyma, did the USSR advanced rocket and space power: first, he created the first artificial Earth satellite, and then sent a man into space.

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