Leo Malet, Author, Jacques Tardi, Author, Leo Malet, Illustrator . ibooks $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7448-1
Adapted from the late author Malet's 1942 novel, 120, Rue de la Gare
, this old-fashioned, highly entertaining detective story has real heft. The story takes place during the German occupation of France, in a POW camp where a detective, Nestor...
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Jacques Tardi, Author, R. Lofficier, Translator, Jean-Marc L'Officier, Translator Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56163-001-1
Adele Blanc-Sec continues her farcical adventures in French cartoonist Tardi's ( Adele and the Beast ) second volume about this no-nonsense mystery-solving heroine. Adele is no angel, and though ostensibly a writer, she's more often hatching a scam...
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Jacques Tardi, Author, Jean-Marc L'Officier, Translator Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56163-054-7
French cartoonist Tardi ( Fog over Tolbiac Bridge) returns with a peculiar protagonist in a very peculiar story. Making a call in lower Manhattan, Walter, who works as a roach exterminator, notices that unlike most buildings in New York City this...
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Jacques Tardi, Benjamin Legrand, and Dominic Grange. Fantagraphics, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-606995-24-2
Tardi and company’s love letter to New York City paints a decidedly uninviting portrait of an unforgiving metropolis where one wrong turn can land even the most unassuming nobody into serious trouble. Originally published in the early 1980s, the...
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Jacques Tardi and Jean Pierre Verney, trans. from the French by Kim Thompson. Fantagraphics, $24.95 (152p) ISBN 978-1-60699-582-2
French artist Tardi revisits World War I, the subject matter of his phenomenal It Was the War of the Trenches. He takes a new approach to his subject matter, and his art has evolved in the 15 years since his earlier masterpiece, but the details of...
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Jacques Tardi, trans. from the French by Jenna Allen . Fantagraphics, $29.99 (184p) ISBN 978-1-68396-108-6
French cartoonist Tardi (Goddamn This War!), adapts his father Rene’s memories of World War II into a harrowing and bitterly humorous dialogue between father and son. Tardi cleverly portrays himself as a child following his dad around as he narrates
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