Synopses & Reviews
Jacques Tardi is responsible for two acknowledged graphic novel masterpieces about World War I: and To honor the 100th anniversary in 2014 of WWI, Fantagraphics is proud to release a two-volume boxed set collecting these two perennial classics. The first book, , focuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, bringing that existence alive as no one has before or since with some of his most stunning artwork. His second WWI masterwork, , is told with a sustained sense of outrage, pitch-black gallows humor, and impeccably scrupulous historical exactitude, in masterful full color.
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" is one of the most passionately bleak works in the history of comics. Tardi is unremitting in his focus on the small, human details of the catastrophe ... ... bring[s] a surprising beauty to the horrors it depicts." The Guardian
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"...... brings together the great French cartoonist's two masterpieces of the first war..." Rachel Cooke
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"Tardi's meticulously researched graphic novels belong in the same class as Dalton Trumbo's and for its staunch allegiance to soldiers' humanity and unwavering antagonism for war itself." Gabriel Winslow-Yost The New York Review of Books
Synopsis
To commemorate WWI's 100th anniversary, Fantagraphics is collecting two of award-winner Tardi's WWI graphic novels in a box set.
Synopsis
Jacques Tardi is responsible for two acknowledged graphic novel masterpieces about World War I: It Was the War of the Trenches and Goddamn This War To honor the 100th anniversary in 2014 of WWI, Fantagraphics is proud to release a two-volume boxed set collecting these two perennial classics. The first book, It Was the War of the Trenches, focuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, bringing that existence alive as no one has before or since with some of his most stunning artwork. His second WWI masterwork, Goddamn This War , is told with a sustained sense of outrage, pitch-black gallows humor, and impeccably scrupulous historical exactitude, in masterful full color.
About the Author
With over 30 graphic novels under his belt (a half-dozen of which have been translated into English), Jacques Tardi is considered the leading European cartoonist of the generation that came of age in the 1970s. His books published in America by Fantagraphics include West Coast Blues, You are There, It Was the War of the Trenches, and The Arctic Marauder. He lives in Paris with his wife, the singer Dominique Grange, and their cats.