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Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder
The first of two volumes presenting all of the world-renowned hardboiled crime graphic novels (one of which has never before been collected in English!). In the never-before-collected Griffu, the titular character is a legal advisor, not a private eye, but even he knows that when a sultry blonde appears in his office after hours, he shouldn't trust her ― and she doesn't disappoint. Griffu is soon ensnared in a deadly web of sexual betrayal, real estate fraud, and murder. In West Coast Blues, a young sales executive goes to the aid of an accident victim, and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. This volume also offers a bonus, 21-page unfinished story by Manchette and Tardi, as well as a single page introduction to another incomplete story, both appearing in English for the first time.
You Are There
You Are There is an unexpected collaboration between the darkly cynical Jacques Tardi and the playful fantasist Jean-Claude Forest (of Barbarella fame). It is set on a small island off the coast of France, where unscrupulous landowners have succeeded in overtaking the land from the last heir of a previously wealthy family. His domain now reduced to the walls that border the patches of land he used to own, the half-mad fellow prowls the walls all day, eking out a living by collecting tolls at each gate. His seemingly hopeless struggle to recover his birthright becomes complicated as the government sees a way of using his plight for the sake of political expediency, and the romantic intervention of the daughter of one of the landowners (who has her own sordid history with the politician) engenders further difficulties. Set in Tardi's preferred early 20th century milieu, You Are There is drawn in his crisp 1980s neo-"clear line" style, gorgeously detailed, with impossibly deep slabs of black.
Goddamn this War!
Jacques Tardi's graphic novel Goddamn This War! is split into six chronological chapters, one for each year of WWI, drawn in a pen-ink-and-watercolor technique, with the bold colors of the early chapters fading into a grimy near-monochrome as the war drags on. It is told, with insight, dark wit and despair, as a first-person reminiscence/narration by an unnamed soldier.
New York Mon Amour
Collecting together Manhattan, a grimy story of depression, madness and suicide in New York City, whose appearance in the premiere issue of RAW magazine was key to the virtuoso aesthetic of the publication and three other tales of the Big Apple rendered by Tardi with the same panache as he does for Paris or the trenches of WW1 - in one spectacular volume. Also featured is the Coackroach Killer, a violent, surreal conspiracy thriller that features a striking two-colour black and red technique and remains one of the cartoonist's most startling works.
The Complete I, René Tardi, P.O.W.
The complete three-part saga of French comics master Jacques Tardi's gripping and humane biographical portrait of his father's life as a soldier during WWII.
The True Story of the Unknown Soldier
Mad geniuses, Jules Verne-style deliriums, dinosaurs, sex, bloodshed, and the madness of World War I -- two strange and surreal early works by a master of the comics form.
It was the War of the Trenches
The experiences of World War I from the perspectives of soldiers on the battle field and their families at home.
Three To Kill
"His books are all action, unfolding with a laconic efficiency that would make his killers proud."—The Economist Businessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder—and is pursued by the killers. His conventional life knocked off the rails, Gerfaut turns the tables and sets out to track down his pursuers. Along the way, he learns a thing or two about himself. . . . Manchette—masterful stylist, ironist, and social critic—limns the cramped lives of professionals in a neoconservative world. "Manchette has appropriated and subverted the classic thriller [with] descriptions of undiluted action, violence and suspense [and] a perspective on evil, a disenchanted world of manipulation and fury. . ...
The Arctic Marauder
In its ongoing quest to showcase Jacques Tardi's wide range,Fantagraphics is publishing one of his earliest and most distinctive graphicnovels: a satirical, Jules Vernes-esque "retro-sci-fi" yarn. In1899, a ship navigating the Arctic Ocean comes across a stunning sight: aghostly, abandoned vessel perched high atop an iceberg. Soon, the sailors'own ship is dispatched via a mysterious explosion. Enter JérômePlumier, whose search for his missing uncle, the inventor Louis-FerdinandChapoutier, brings him into contact with the sinister, frigid forces behind this-- and soon he, too, is headed towards the North Pole, where he willcontend with mad scientists, monsters of the deep, and futuristic submarines andflying machines. Told with brio in hilarious slabs of vintage purple prose,The Arctic Marauder finds Tardi in fantastical mode and is a keystone of hisoeuvre.
Roach Killer
A graphic novel starring a pesticide guy from Blitz who gets in trouble on the 13th floor of a building in New York City.
