Most of Tardi�s work is absolutely outstanding and especially
some of his non-Malet work...Of course the Brouillard au Pont
de Tolbiac (Casterman 82), from Malet�s book, is a standard
and several others in that series are too, but consider
simply the magnificent Voyage Au Bout de la Nuit from
C�line�s famous book (Gallimard-Futuropolis-1988) which is as
noir as the book itself, or the 4 volumes saga of the Commune
from the book by Vautrin and whose fourth volume was called
Le Cri du Peuple and was published by Casterman in 2004, who
are a very noir rendition of this dark episode of French
history...or his series called Griffu in the magazine BD
which had text from JP Manchette... In the world of graphic
novels with a connection to crime stories (noir or not) Tardi
is a leading figure worlwide for almost 25 years...
For those interested in this graphic novel�s master go and
check this website in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tardi....or
this one also in English with many pictures simply Google
Tardi and you�ll find many answers and books in
English...
In my mind this as important in the graphic novel/crime
stories world as the Hard Looks series and compilations from
Dark Horse Comics in early 90�s with text from A. Vachss
(then at his best) and many excellent artists...
Le Montois de D�troit
cinefrog@comcast.net
On 3/28/07 5:17 AM, "Juri Nummelin" <
juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi> wrote: Mark D:
>
> "I've never read a Malet novel, but the comics are
superb--Tardi does a
> magnificent job capturing the feel of Paris,
especially its architecture,
> and I am told that Malet heartily approved of the
comics adaptations."
>
> I've read at least three novels by Malet and I think
that Tardi's graphic
> novelizations are much better. Don't really know why
this is, but the art
> really adds to the stories that seem to me to be
pretty mediocre. Maybe it's
> the translations - two or three in Finnish, one in
English. (Furthermore,
> I've had only limited interest in Tardi's non-Malet
work. The stories are
> not contradictorily strong enough.)
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