ICI MEME
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 graphic novels.
One of my favourites is , Ici Même written by Jean-Claude Forest(d1998), best known as the creator of Barbarella. A satire, it describes the adventures of Arthur Même who lives on the walls of his family’s former property.
His drawing style could be likened to the ligne claire style (clear line), he also satirises the concept of the flawless hero by using a series of inept, naive or anti-heroic main characters. And aside from myself and a few other French reading English speakers his audience is mainly the literary, French-speaking adult public.
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