Jacques Tardi


Jacques Tardi is a French comic artist. He is often credited solely as Tardi.

Biography

Tardi was born on 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme. After graduating from the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, he started drawing comics in 1969, at the age of 23, in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote, initially illustrating short stories written by Jean Giraud and Serge de Beketch, before creating the political fiction story Rumeur sur le Rouergue from a scenario by Pierre Christin in 1972. Tardi especially gained fame and recognition with his graphic novels about the horror and misery of The First World War, like It Was The War of the Trenches.
In the English language, many of Tardi's books are published by Fantagraphics Books, edited and translated by Fantagraphics' co-founder Kim Thompson.
In 2013, Tardi was nominated as a Chevalier in France's Legion of Honour, the country's highest distinction. However, he turned down the distinction, citing that he will "remain a free man and not be held hostage by any power whatsoever."

Awards

Scenario and artwork

' followed by La Fleur au fusil Le Démon des glaces,
  • ' ' Déprime
  • ', C'était la guerre des tranchées, Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
  • # "Adèle et la bête",
  • # "Le Démon de la tour Eiffel",
  • # "Le Savant fou",
  • # "Momies en folie",
  • # "Le Secret de la salamandre",
  • # "Le Noyé à deux têtes",
  • # "Tous des monstres !",
  • # "Le Mystère des profondeurs",
  • # "Le Labyrinthe infernal",
  • # "Le Bébé des Buttes-Chaumont"., Moi, René Tardi, Prisonnier de guerre – stalag IIB,

Adaptations

', based on novels by Léo Malet

Artwork

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  • ' '
  • ', ', Grange bleue Le sens de la houppelande, Un strapontin pour deux L'évasion du cheval gris Sodome et Virginie,
  • ', ,
  • ''New York mi amor''

Scenario

  • ''Le voyage d'Alphonse''

Sketchbooks

Mine de plomb Chiures de gommes Tardi en banlieue, Carnet,

Illustrated novels

Céline adaptations:Voyage au bout de la nuit, Casse-pipe, Mort à crédit,
Jules Verne adaptations:Un prêtre en 1839, San Carlos,

Novel

  • ''Rue des Rebuts''

In English

Adèle and the Beast – Adèle et la bête, The Demon of the Eiffel Tower – Le Démon de la tour Eiffel, The Mad Scientist and Mummies on Parade – Le Savant fou and Momies en folie, The Secret of the Salamander – Le Secret de la salamandre The Bloody Streets of Paris – 120, rue de la Gare, West Coast Blues – Le petit bleu de la côte ouest, You Are There – Ici Même, It Was the War of the Trenches – C'était la guerre des tranchées The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Vol. 1: Pterror Over Paris and The Eiffel Tower Demon – Adèle et la bête and Le Démon de la tour Eiffel, The Arctic Marauder – Le Démon des glaces Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot – La Position du tireur couché, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Vol. 2: The Mad Scientist and Mummies on Parade – Le Savant fou and Momies en folie, New York Mon Amour – Collects Cockroach Killer, It's So Hard..., Manhattan, Hung's Murderer,, Goddamn This War – Putain de Guerre!, Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell – Ô dingos, ô châteaux!, Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge: A Nestor Burma Mystery – Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac, I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag IIB, I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag IIB Vol. 2: My Return Home, I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag IIB Vol. 3: After the War, Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder: The Complete Noir Stories of Manchette & Tardi Vol. 1 – Collects Griffu, ''West Coast Blues, Unfinished Stories, Fatal, and Nada, Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder: The Complete Noir Stories of Manchette & Tardi Vol. 2 – Collects Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot & Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell, Farewell, Brindavoine, Elise and the New Partisans'', ISBN 978-1683967552