Zhenya Oliinyk: 'Drawing and writing comics is more like journalism to me'

Podcast: Fictionable · Fictionable

Opublikowano: 2026-08-22

We've heard from Will Boast, EC Osondu and Robin Munby already in this Summer series of podcasts, and Elaine Vilar Madruga is lined up next. But this week we welcome Zhenya Oliinyk and her graphic short story A Night in Kyiv. This story is short and made up of unsettling images, but Oliinyk tells us it's "not exactly fiction". "It is a documentation of one particular night," she says, "in terms of the numbers, because the numbers are real." Oliinyk charts the night in a series of alerts as the...