In the early 1930s, young journalist Gareth Jones travels to the Soviet Union for a story and embarks on a journey of discovery, strife, and a cover-up of the deaths of millions of people . . .
Can the unrelenting power of truth expose one of Stalin’s greatest crimes to a world that refuses to bear witness? Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997– is proud to unveil the first look inside INSIDE THE SHADOW OF STALIN: THE STORY OF MR. JONES from journalist and screenwriter Andrea Chalupa (host of the hit podcast Gaslist Nation and writer of Orwell and the Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm) and artist Ivan Rodrigues. This powerful new historical graphic novel reexamines the bravery and tragedy that first thrust Ukraine in the international spotlight in the years before World War II– out now!
In the early 1930s, Gareth Jones is a young journalist with powerful connections after a groundbreaking interview with Adolf Hitler and his chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels. This notoriety gains him permission to travel to the Soviet Union for a potential interview with Joseph Stalin.
Jones hopes to learn more about the Soviets’ mass economic gains but finds himself stonewalled and trapped in Moscow. While looking for a way out, he meets new allies that alert him to the growing man-made famine, or Holodomor, happening in Ukraine under the government’s guidance. Jones, seeking the truth in all its ugliness, embarks on a journey of discovery, strife, and a cover-up of the deaths of millions of people. Andrea Chalupa and Ivan Rodrigues’ ground-breaking graphic novel brings truth to light– out now!
