BY EMI GENNIS

This is the story of Salomon August Andrée, Sweden’s first balloonist, who attempted to become the first person to reach the North Pole in 1897 by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon. The expedition was unsuccessful.

Emi Gennis is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator, and an alumna of the Savannah College of Art & Design’s Sequential Art MFA program. Her macabre historical and true crime comics have appeared in both print and online publications, including several anthologies. She is the editor of Unknown Origins & Untimely Ends, an anthology of nonfiction mystery comics from Hic & Hoc Publications. Emi currently lives in Portland, Oregon.