A Swiss cartoonist traces her grandparents through the wreckage of flight SR 111
Former lawyer Talel Aronowicz publishes her first graphic novel, an intimate investigation into the 1998 Swissair crash that killed both her grandparents, out with Editions Helvetiq.
On September 2, 1998, a Swissair flight from New York to Geneva went down off Halifax, Canada, after smoke filled the cockpit and its instruments failed one by one. All 229 people aboard died. Two days later, Le Temps called it the worst disaster in Swiss aviation history.
Swiss cartoonist Talel Aronowicz, a former lawyer, has now published a graphic-novel account of her own investigation into that crash, according to Le Temps. Her grandparents were among the passengers who died, and the book follows her search for traces of them and for what the disaster left behind inside her family.
The album, Aronowicz's first, is published by the Swiss house Editions Helvetiq. Le Temps frames it as a work that reopens a tragedy largely forgotten outside the families it touched, using the tools of comics reportage to examine how a single catastrophe reshapes the people who survive it, generations later.
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