![]() ![]() It certainly achieves this.Īt the entrance you put on a sort of infra-red stereo Walkman which lets you listen to passages of a story written and narrated by Tardi. “I want visitors to come out of this exhibition feeling depressed”, Tardi explained. But characteristically, Tardi chose to avoid the usual self-congratulatory show and instead with François Vié devised an arresting exhibition entitled ‘One Hero Can Hide Another’. ![]() At the following year’s Festival, he was asked to exhibit his originals as is the tradition. He shuns the cocktails and celebrity, the trappings that come with winning the Grand Prix for the best French comics artist at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1985. He distrusts it and the media hype it brings. Jacques Tardi is a man uncomfortable with success. Let me urge you to seek out his remarkable oeuvre made available in English by Fantagraphics. ![]() To mark this, here is my profile of Tardi from Escape Magazine No. On today of all days, the centenary of Britain’s declaration of war against Germany in 1914, Jacques Tardi stands as one of the most insistent and clear voices in modern French comics and graphic novels recording and criticising the horrors of this ‘war to ends all wars’, and of other wars since. ![]()
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