Nick Abadzis’ Laika is a stunning, beautiful book, described by me last year as:
“It was a one way journey, necessitated through Khrushchev’s desire to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution with another propaganda victory to match that of Sputnik I. Yet Sputnik II’s little dog gave her life for little scientific advancement and a hollow propaganda victory that soon fell apart as the world questioned why she was sent up to die. Laika’s a really excellent book that manages to tell us so much about this amazing time in our past and should act as a clarion call to us today that we owe it to ourselves to look up once more in wonder and ask ourselves why we’re not walking amongst the stars once more.”
Well, the First Second blog reports that Nick Abadzis has been in touch to tell them that an Italian composer named Luca Tozzi has been so moved by the book as to write some music for Laika. The You Tube video combines Abadzis’ comic with Tozzi’s music to quite a wonderful effect – don’t you think?
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Sun, Oct 4, 2009
Comics and cartoons