![]() ![]() Historian Jean-Pierre Verney once more collaborates with Tardi to ensure historical accuracy, and the OGN that ensued is one of a horrific beauty.ĭrawn in his trademark style but with a looser line, this is Tardi at his roughest and most beautiful. This obsession goes back to his grandfather, who fought in the war, and the horrific stories his grandmother used to recount to a young Tardi about his experience, since the man himself was too shell-shocked to relive those experiences orally. Originally published as serial chapters (one for each year of the war) in a newspaper-size tabloid format, the work sees Tardi once more stir up his demons about WWI. The cycle that started with C’était la Guerre des Tranchées ( It Was the War of the Trenches 1914-1918) finally reaches its conclusion with Putain de Guerre (published in English by Fantagraphics as Goddamn This War 1914-1919). In Putain de Guerre! (‘ Fucking War!’), he describes one lone soldier’s tour of duty from the beginning of the war to its end, in one long horrific monologue. Legendary French artist Jacques Tardi’s obsession with World War I is drenched in the blood and horror that is visited upon the common soldier. ![]()
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