Often credited solely as Tardi, Jacques Tardi is a French BD artist. He started writing comics in 1969, at the age of 23, in the comics’ magazine “Pilote”. Initially illustrating short stories written by Jean Giraud and De Beketch. Tardi has successfully adapted crime novels by Léo Malet. . into a series of critically acclaimed [...]
A nostalgia fest has begun in France for its best-loved schoolboy, Le Petit Nicolas, a cheeky little nine-year old, and his classroom pals dreamed up by Asterix co-inventor René Goscinny and genius illustrator, Jean-Jacques Sempé. Full article
The Tokyo publisher East Press is launching a series of 32 manga versions of important European and Japanese literature. Full Article
Easy going Gaston Lagaffe was created by André Franquin for the February 28, 1957 issue of Le journal de Spirou as a light hearted glimpse of life behind the scenes at the paper. Gaston is a blundering office clerk with a great sense of humour and remarkable lack of common sense who spends a lot [...]
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