Jacques Tardi

Jacques Tardi (born the August 30th 1946 with Valence) is an author and draftsman of Cartoon French, holder in 1985 of the prestigious Grand Prix of Angouleme.

Biography

It was born in Valence, but remained with his father with Kassel, in the Germany according to the devastations of the war. His/her father will resign of the Army, refusing to go in Indo-China.

After being entered with the National school of the fine arts of Lyon at 16 years, then with the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of decorative Arts with Paris, it begins, in 1969, in the review Pilote ; he is then 23 years old. Its first album is Rumeur on Rouergue , published in 1971 in Pilote , on a scenario of Pierre Christin. Since, it gained an important popularity in the world of the cartoon, even if her assistantship is limited to a French-speaking public, adult and literary.

The universe of Tardi is easy to summarize: suburbs of Paris, the anarchists, some monsters, of the soldiers and the war, and, everywhere, the misery which pitches, the revolt… The work of Tardi is very explicit. Its work on the First World War ( It was the war of distinct the ) is greeted unanimously. It evokes in particular the Soldats shot for the example. His/her large father had been gauze during this war. Of its choices of authors (adapted, illustrated like Celine, Daniel Pennac, Jean Vautrin, Léo Malet…) release themselves from emotional, imaginary but so political coherences.

Its style can seem close to the clear Ligne of Hergé (which one thinks, for example, with the bubbles very data base ), but the works of Tardi have a clear tendency to ridicule the concept of the “hero”, his characters can be complete Anti-héros, victims of the walk of the world without catch (except accidental) on this one, even of simple witnesses refusing to act differently than for their own account.

He lives with the singer Dominique Grange. He sponsors the Salon of the popular book of expression and social criticism of Arras.

Works published

Cartoon

Scenario and drawing

Adieu Brindavoine followed the flower to rifle (Casterman, 1974)
the Demon of the ices (Casterman, 1974)
the True story of the unknown soldier (Futuropolis, 1974)
Mouh Mouh (Peperland, 1979)
Depresses (Futuropolis, 1981)
the Shell hole (Imagerie Pilgrim, 1984)
Black lead, Chiures of gums (Futuropolis, 1985)
Tardi in suburbs (Casterman, 1990)
Plays to die (according to a novel of Géo-Charles Véran) (Casterman, 1992)
It was the war of distinct the (Casterman, 1993)
the extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (Casterman, 1976-1998)
# Adèle and the Animal (1976)
# the Demon of the tower Eiffel (1976)
# the insane Scientist (1977)
# Momies in madnesses (1978)
# the Secrecy of the salamander (1981)
# Drowned to two heads (1985)
# All of the monsters! (1994)
# the Mystery the depths (1998)
# the infernal labyrinth (publication in serial in the newspaper the Throttle valve as from September 2007)
Nestor Burma , according to the novels of Léo Malet (Casterman, 1982-2000)
# Fog with the bridge of Tolbiac (Casterman, 1982)
# 120, rue de la Gare (Casterman, 1988)
# a lead hangover (Casterman, 1990)
# Breakage-pipe with the Nation (Casterman, 1996)
# Medid you see in corpse? (Casterman, 2000)
# the night of Saint-Germain of close (drawing of Moynot, Casterman, 2006)
# the sun is born behind Louvre (drawing of Moynot, Casterman, 2007)
Carnet (Association, 2001)
the Cry from the people , according to the novel of Jean Vautrin (Casterman, 2001-2004)
# the Guns of March 18th (2001)
# the Hope assassinated (2002)
# the bloody Hours (2003)
# the Will of the ruins (2004)
the small blue of the west coast according to a novel of Jean-Patrick Cuff (Casterman, 2005)
the secrecy of the throttle valve according to a novel of Pierre Siniac (Casterman, 2006)

Drawing

Rumor on Rouergue (scenario of Pierre Christin) (Gallimard, 1976)
Polonius (scenario of Picaret) (Futuropolis, 1977)
Griffu (scenario of Jean-Patrick Cuff) (Public garden then Dargaud then Casterman, 1978)
Here Even (scenario of Jean-Claude Forest) (Casterman, 1979)
Killer of cockroaches (scenario of Benjamin Legrand) (Casterman, 1984)
blue Barn (scenario of Dominique Barn) (Futuropolis, 1985)
the Direction of the houppelande (scenario of Daniel Pennac) (Futuropolis, 1991)
a folding seat for two (scenario of Michel Boujut) (Casterman, 1995)
Almost any Tardi (scenario of Olivier Maltret) (Sapristi, 1996)
Tardi by the window (scenario of Michel Boujut) (Christian Desbois, 1996)
the Escape from the gray horse (scenario of Verrien) (Sapristi, 1996)
Sodome and Virginia (scenario of Daniel Prévost) (Denoël, 1996)
the DER of Ders (scenario of Didier Daeninckx) (Casterman, 1997)
Varlot soldier (scenario of Didier Daeninckx) (Association, 1999)
Kosovo, traces of war, lines of peace , out of the ordinary bashi-bazouk, June-July 1999, p.43 (drawing of Tardi)
the Vice (scenario of Daniel Pennac) (Futuropolis, 2000)

Scenario

the Voyage of Alphonse (drawing of Antoine Leconte) (Duculot, 2003)

Illustration

Illustration of novels:

Celine, Voyage at the end of the night , Futuropolis, 1988.
Celine, Breakage-pipe , Futuropolis, 1989.
Celine, Died with credit , Futuropolis, 1991.
Jules Verne, a Priest in 1839 , Seek-Midday, 1992.
Jules Verne, San Carlos , Cherche Midi, 1993.

Illustration of catalog:

L. Albaret, J. Tardi, War and station. The extraordinary daily newspaper of the French in time of war , catalogs exposure of the Musée of the Post office, Casterman, 2007.

Novel

Street of the Rejects , Alain Beaulet, 1990.

Radiophonic serial

the Parrot of Batignolles, with Boujut, 1997

Documentation

Books

Thierry Groensteen, Tardi , Magic Strip, 1980.
With the meeting of Jacques Tardi , Bédésup, coll “With the meeting of… ”, 1982.
Jacques Samson (to dir.), Mieux is worth Tardi , Analogon, 1989.
Alain Foulet and Olivier Maltret, Presque any Tardi , Sapristi, 1996.
Numa Sadoul, Tardi , Niffle, coll “Profession author of cartoon”, 2000.

Reviews

Jacques Tardi interviewed by Jean-Marc Vidal, “the prem' S of the prem' S”, in BoDoï n° November 19th, th and th 1998.

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