Jacques Tardi

In the first of two graphic novel volumes, Jacques Tardi -- with four decades of cartooning and almost two dozen graphic novels behind him -- tells Rene Tardi's story, masterfully recreating historical and personal details with remarkable fidelity, guided by extensive research and his father's notes. Featuring some of Jacques's most intense and meticulous drawing, punctuated by somber grays and punches of red and blue rendered beautifully by Rachel Tardi, Stalag 2B is a personal and artistic triumph.

Paris, 1950s. In this graphic novel adaptation, Nestor Burma's past comes knocking when B lita, a young woman, leads him to the Salpetriere hospital, where he discovers the recently deceased Abel Beno t, an old buddy from his anarchist days. While Burma has chosen to move onto the (more or less) straight and narrow as a private eye, his friend had stayed on the other side of the law as a counterfeiter and worse, until his own past caught up with him -- lethally. So now it's up to Malet to avenge his friend, and hopefully unravel a mystery whose roots run far and deep back into the past...

Folkets röst är Jacques Tardis monumentala serieversion av Jean Vautrins roman om Pariskommunen 1871, den revolutionära resning som satte skräck i borgerligheten och tjänade som förebild – och myt – för anarkister och socialister i många länder.

Jacques Tardi adapts ace crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette for the third time in Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell. Michel Hartog, a rich industrialist, hires a young woman, Julie, straight out of the psychiatric asylum to work as a nanny for his bratty nephew Peter. But Hartog plans to stage a fake kidnapping of his nephew and use Julie as a scapegoat. Unfortunately for Hartog, Julie proves infinitely more tough and resourceful than he expected, the kidnapping goes horribly, bloodily wrong, and now Julie and Peter are on the run, pursued both by the police and by Hartog's goons, led by the aging but fantastically dangerous contract killer Thompson.

Created 15 years after the completion of his Eisner Award-winning World War I masterwork It Was the War of the Trenches, Tardi 's Goddamn This War is no mere sequel or extension, but a brand new, wholly individual graphic novel that serves as a companion piece to Trenches but can be read entirely on its own. Vastly different sequentially (eschewing Trenches splintered narrative, Goddamn is split into six chronological chapters, one for each year of the war), graphically (Tardi deploys his more recent pen-ink-and-watercolor technique, with the bold colors of the early chapters fading into a grimy near-monochrome in the later ones as the war drags on), and narratively (all of Goddamn is told, with insight, dark wit and despair, as a first-person reminiscence/narration by an unnamed soldier), Goddamn This War shares with Trenches its sustained sense of outrage, pitch-black gallows humor, and impeccably scrupulous historical exactitude. In fact, Goddamn This War includes an extensive year-by-year historical text section written by Tardi 's frequent World War I research helpmate, the historian and collector Jean-Pierre Verney, including dozens of stunning rare photographs and visual documents from his personal collection.

Det slutna landet är en pytteliten stat i staten. En gång i tiden tillhörde den Arthur Justs släkt, men hans förfäder har förlorat allt i en massa processer. Han har bara kvar murarna, som avgränsar landet från nationen i övrigt, och på dem bor han, kräver vägtull för att öppna portarna i sin mur, talar med sin avlidna mor i telefon och för en enveten kamp för rättvisan och fädernesarvet. Julie, hans värsta fiendes vackra dotter, tycker om att kissa offentligt. Hon blir kär i Arthur. Nationens president, mannen som en gång i tiden lärde Julie att tycka om kissex, håller på att förlora valet och söker efter en fristad för sina skumma affärer ... Dessa tre är de bisarra huvudfigurerna i en psykologisk thriller, ett Kafka-aktigt, absurt drama, som är komiskt och tragiskt på en och samma gång. Tardi var banbrytare för serien som konstnärligt uttryck på 70-talet. Han är en av de moderna seriernas stora stilbildare. Hans kompromisslösa världssyn speglas i hans personliga teckningar.