RSS Feed

Facebook

Twitter

THE BLOG AT THE CROSSROADS


Jacques Tardi: Goddamn This War!

Posted: August 4, 2014

On today of all days, the centenary of Britain’s declaration of war against Germany in 1914, Jacques Tardi stands as one of the most insistent and clear voices in modern French comics and graphic novels recording and criticising the horrors of this ‘war to ends all wars’, and of other wars since. To mark this, here is my profile of Tardi from Escape Magazine No. 8 (1987). Let me urge you to seek out his remarkable oeuvre made available in English by Fantagraphics. Read this Article here…

Read The Blog At The Crossroads here.

Donate!

If you are finding this website helpful, please support it by making a donation:

My Books


Comics Art by Paul Gravett from Tate Publishing

Comics Unmasked by Paul Gravett and John Harris Dunning from The British Library

1001 Comics  You Must Read Before You Die edited by Paul Gravett









All contents © Paul Gravett, except where noted.
All artwork © the respective copyright holders.