it was the war of the trenches by jacques tardi

Books published by Fantagraphics include West Coast Blues ( Le Petit bleu de la côte ouest), You Are There ( Ici Même), It Was the War of the Trenches ( C'était la guerre des tranchées), Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot ( La Position du tireur couché) and The Arctic Marauder ( Le Démon des glaces). In the English language, many of Tardi's books are published by Fantagraphics Books, edited and translated by Fantagraphics' co-founder Kim Thompson. He also completed a four-volume series on the Paris Commune, Le cri du peuple. His grandfather's involvement in the day-to-day horrors of trench warfare, seems to have had a deep influence on his artistic expression. Tardi has produced many antiwar graphic novels and comics, mainly focusing on the collective European trauma of the First World War, and the pitfalls of patriotism spawned several albums ( Adieu Brindavoine, C'était la guerre des tranchées, Le trou d'obus, Putain de Guerre.). A satire, it describes the adventures of Arthur Même who lives on the walls of his family's former property. This series recreates the Paris of early 20th century where the moody heroine encounters supernatural events, state plots, occult societies and experiments in cryogenics.Īnother graphic novel was Ici Même which was written by Jean-Claude Forest, best known as the creator of Barbarella.

Tardi also created one of French comics' most famous heroines, Adèle Blanc-Sec.

In Malet's case, Tardi adapted his detective hero Nestor Burma into a series of critically acclaimed graphic novels, though he also wrote and drew original stories of his own. After graduating from the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, he started drawing comics in 1969, at the age of 23, in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote, initially illustrating short stories written by Jean Giraud and Serge de Beketch, before creating the political fiction story Rumeur sur le Rouergue from a scenario by Pierre Christin in 1972.Ī highly versatile artist, Tardi successfully adapted novels by controversial writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline and crime novelist Léo Malet. Tardi was born on 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme.

It was the war of the trenches by jacques tardi