Tardi at work

Joe — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:02:57 +0000

Kim at Fantagraphics posts up this short video of the great Jacques Tardi at work on the sequel to his powerful It Was the War of the Trenches (an astonishing work, I read some of it in French, was very pleased when Fanta announced they were issuing an English language translation of it – see my review here). The sequel is entitled Putain de Guerre, which as Kim notes roughly translates so far as Fucking War – he may need to work on the English language title, although anyone who has read Tardi won’t doubt that’s what he thinks of war, especially the tragically ridiculous industrial-scale carnage of the trenches in the Great War, his sense of outrage and injustice at the events from 90 odd years ago strong and well articulated through his pens. (thanks to Rod McKie for the link)

World War One and Two in easy comics form

Joe — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:04:51 +0000

Angus McLeod has posted up two absolutely brilliant simple comics histories explaining the whole of World War One and World War Two in just a few minutes; a quick excerpt from 1914:

I love the British Isles reaction to the German attack through Belgium “you wanker” and the donning of the war moustache is a great touch (and indeed a great ‘tache). Angus also has a similarly (and again deceptively simply but actually bloody clever) strip condensing the history of the Second World War as well – see below for a snip – so go and check it out. (link via Boing Boing, art by and (c) Angus McLeod).

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Tardi at work

World War One and Two in easy comics form