Jacques Tardi
Fantagraphics to publish Tardi
You Are There
Well, there goes one less potential column for Collect This Now. Over at Flog!, Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson announced the company will begin publishing the works of the legendary French cartoonist Jacques Tardi this summer:
“The first two releases will be West Coast Blues (Le petit bleu de la Côte Ouest), a hard-boiled crime thriller adapted by Tardi from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, and You Are There (Ici même), a satirical, surreal story written for Tardi by Barbarella creator Jean-Claude Forest that many consider one of the first true French graphic novels. Both will be released simultaneously in August, in what series editor Kim Thompson (ahem) calls a ‘double-pronged shock-and-awe assault on the American readership, to immediately show off Tardi’s versatility.’
The real gem comes next summer when the company plans to publish what is largely regarded as his masterstroke, the WWI epic, In the War of the Trenches.
