Based on the play Witchland, Tim Mulligan turns the story into a graphic novel that explores a town shadowed by a toxic nuclear site and a mysterious witch.
Witchland: The Graphic Novel is a tale set against the backdrop of the Hanford nuclear project in Washington State, often called “the most toxic place in the Western Hemisphere.” In the 1940s the US Government displaced the residents of three small towns in Eastern Washington to establish the Hanford Engineer Works, a clandestine atomic bomb factory that shipped key materials to Robert Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. By 1945, the site had produced enough plutonium to test an atomic bomb and contribute to the creation of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Later the town encompassing the site was named Richland and grew into a bustling community of over 51,000 workers, complete with schools, recreation halls, and stores. However, in the 1940s and 1950s the plant released significant amounts of radioactive materials into the nearby environment, leading to higher rates of cancer throughout the area.
Witchland: The Graphic Novel is scheduled to arrive in store on February 15, 2024.
