Radium Girls

“If she didn't want to make a didactic album, Cy achieves her goal by doing justice to Mollie and her friends with a strong and heartbreaking book. Despite the lurking death, this album is much more alive than one might think.” -- COMIXTRIP**

“This album shines with its graphic inventiveness and exudes a tremendous joie de vivre, despite its painful epilogue.” -- CASES D'HISTOIRE

Vorwort

• Extensive ARC campaign to major trades, mainstream news, and entertainment outlets 

• Active Digital ARC promotions via NetGalley and Edelweiss 

• Focused press outreach to high-traffic comics and genre news outlets 

• Wide social media following currently reaching over 90,000 devoted readers 

• Posters, shelf-talkers, and other POP materials included in retailer mailings and available for download by request 

• Featured at comic book conventions, livestreamed virtual events, and trade shows throughout the year including C2E2, Book Show, and SPX 

• Paid digital ad support during publication month reaching target reading audience on multiple channels 

• Frequent eNewsletter promotions reaching an engaged audience of up to 40,000 fans

Autorentext

Cyrielle Evrard, publishing under the nom de plume Cy, was born in 1990. She studied at the École de Condé Paris, where she did a higher cycle of illustration after a BTS Visual Communication. Her previous work includes The True Sex of Real Life, volumes 1 and 2.

Klappentext

"Compelling, inspiring, and radiant." -- FOREWORD

"Excels in showing the camaraderie of the 'Ghost Girls.'" --**** PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Another example of how great graphic novels are at teaching history." -- BOOK RIOT

It’s 1918 in Orange, New Jersey, and everyone knows the “Ghost Girls.” The proud holders of well-paying jobs at the local watch factory, these working-class young women gain their nickname from the fine dusting of glowing, radioactive powder that clings to their clothes after every shift painting watch dials. The soft, greenish glow even stains their lips and tongues, which they use to point the fine brushes used in their work. It’s perfectly harmless . . . or so claims the watch manufacturer. When teeth start falling out, followed by jawbones, the dial painters become the unprepared vanguard on the frontlines of the burgeoning workers’ rights movement. Desperate for compensation and acknowledgement from the company that has doomed them, the Ghost Girls must fight, not just for their own lives but the future of every woman to follow them. A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story.

Zusammenfassung
A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story of the Radium Girls, who fought for their lives and for workers' rights after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918.