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One of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be published in Europe and certainly one of the most original, Ici Meme was seralised in the adult French comics monthly, A Suivre, in the early 1980s. A quarter of a century later, this dark, funny, consistently surprising masterpiece has finally been translated into English as You Are There. Drawn in Tardi's crisp, 1980s neo-clear line style, gorgeously detailed, elegantly stylised with impossibly deep slabs of black, You Are There is a feast for both the eyes and the brain.
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Tardi has nice skinny lines and large fields of black. His architecture and cars and landscapes are amazing. ...Arthur There running up and down the walls and living in this skinny little house are neat ideas. This book talks a lot about what it's like when you spend your life alone and how nuts a slutty crazy girl can make you.--Nick Gazin
The work's crackpot sensibility comes from Forest, best-known for creating the similarly droll sf heroine Barbarella, but it's Tardi's art, with its keen compositions, carefully placed areas of black and white, and sensuous line work, that ties the untidy story together. When this cynical, surreal satire appeared in France in the late 1970s, it was seen as a landmark in the development of the bande dessinée; three decades later, it stands to play a similarly valuable role by introducing American readers to one of Europe's greatest cartoonists.--Gordon Flagg
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The work's crackpot sensibility comes from Forest, best-known for creating the similarly droll sf heroine Barbarella, but it's Tardi's art, with its keen compositions, carefully placed areas of black and white, and sensuous line work, that ties the untidy story together. When this cynical, surreal satire appeared in France in the late 1970s, it was seen as a landmark in the development of the bande dessinée; three decades later, it stands to play a similarly valuable role by introducing American readers to one of Europe's greatest cartoonists.--Gordon Flagg
There are worse things to be linked with than the image of a naked Jane Fonda spinning in zero gravity, but it should be stressed that Jean-Claude Forest's career in comics stretches far beyond Barbarella, the 1962 sci-fi romp that ushered in the era of adult comics first in France, then worldwide. He died in 1998 at the age of 58.
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- PublisherFantagraphics Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1606992945
- ISBN 13 9781606992944
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
- IllustratorJacques Tardi
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. One of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be published in Europe, and certainly one of the best and most original, Ici M me was serialized in the adult French comics monthly (A suivre) in the early 1980s and then released in book form. A quarter of a century later, this dark, funny, consistently surprising masterpiece has finally been translated into English. An unexpected yet smoothly confident collaboration between the darkly cynical Jacques Tardi and the playful fantasist Jean-Claude Forest (of Barbarella fame), You Are There is set on a small island off the coast of France, where unscrupulous landowners have succeeded in overtaking the land from the last heir of a previously wealthy family. That heir, whose domain, in a Beckettian twist, is now reduced to the walls that border these patches of land he used to own, prowls the walls all day, eking out a living by collecting tolls at each gate. His seemingly hopeless struggle to recover his birthright becomes complicated as the government sees a way of using his plight for the sake of political expediency, and the romantic intervention of the daughter of one of the landowners (who has her own sordid history with the politician) engenders further difficulties, culminating in an apocalyptic, hallucinatory finale. Set in Tardi s preferred early 20th century milieu, You Are There is drawn in his crisp 1980s neo- clear line style, gorgeously detailed, elegantly stylized, with impossibly deep slabs of black. You Are There is a feast for both the eyes and the brain. The satirical masterpiece that ushered in the graphic novel era to European comics, finally available in English-the beginning of an ambitious publishing project introducing one of Europe's most beloved cartoonists to American audiences. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781606992944
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