tardi

Paris, 1914. In one auspicious night, Lucien Brindavoine's humdrum life is thrown into wild disarray. Out of the blue, a strange old man visits Brinvadoine's flat and implores him to go to Istanbul to seek his destiny. No sooner are these fateful words spoken...

Paris, 1950s. In this graphic novel adaptation, Nestor Burma's past comes knocking when B駘ita, a young woman, leads him to the Salpetriere hospital, where he discovers the recently deceased Abel Beno?, an old buddy from his anarchist days. While Burma has chosen to move...

In the third and final volume of Stalag IIB, René Tardi has come home. But after five agonizing years as a prisoner of war, he is a changed man. Like millions of other French soldiers, René struggles to adjust to civilian life and imagine...

Captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp where he spends the rest of the war, René Tardi lives a harrowing day-to-day existence. He recalls in vivid detail roll calls in sub-zero temperatures, senseless executions--and especially the gnawing hunger. And yet, in...

The second volume of Stalag IIB begins when captured French soldier Rene Tardi finally gets a taste of freedom, as prisoners and German officers alike are forced to evacuate the POW camp he has languished in for the past four years. Thus begins the...

The second of two volumes presenting all four hardboiled graphic crime novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Tardi. Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot -- Martin Terrier, killer-for-hire, needs just one more big job so that he can turn in his guns for good...

To commemorate WWI's 100th anniversary, Fantagraphics is collecting two of award-winner Tardi's WWI graphic novels in a box set.Author: Tardi, Jean-Pierre VerneyISBN-10: 1606997696ISBN-13: 9781606997697Publisher: Fantagraphics BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2014Pages: 260Format: Boxed SetWeight: 4.03lbsSize: 11.20h x 8.58w x 1.73d

Paris, 1911. One gloomy night at the Museum of Natural History, a pterodactyl escapes from its display and wreaks havoc upon the city. Enter journalist extraordinaire Adèle Blanc-Sec, who must use her wits and firepower to get to the bottom of this bizarre mystery....

Fantagraphics presents two experimental, early works by the French cartooning legend Tardi. These comics, created in the mid-'70s, provide a fascinating preview of the masterworks of his prolific career. While they are not narratively linked, an eerie sense of foreboding suffuses stories in this...

The satirical masterpiece that ushered in the graphic novel era to European comics, finally available in English--the beginning of an ambitious publishing project introducing one of Europe's most beloved cartoonists to American audiences.Author: Tardi, Jean-Claude ForestISBN-10: 1606992945ISBN-13: 9781606992944Publisher: Fantagraphics BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2009Pages: 170Format: HardcoverWeight:...