Tardi
Biography
Jacques Tardi was born August 30, 1946 in Valence (France). He spent his early years in East Germany after the war, his father being a career soldier.
Later, the atrocities of war 14-18, those of his Corsican grandfather, haunt his childhood dreams before later becoming one of the major themes that inspire his work.
Student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, then to the Decorative Arts in Paris, Jacques Tardi debuted in 1969 in the weekly magazine Pilote.
In 1972 appeared his first long story: "Rumors Rouergue" from a screenplay by Christin at Futuropolis.
It was in 1976 that Tardi entered by Casterman and begins the cycle of "Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec", whose success was immediate.
In 1977, a screenplay by John Patrick Cuff, he began achieving clawed in the weekly comic strip, then in that of Here Even with Jean-Claude Forest in "Coming Next".
In 1981, again for this month, it fits in Nestor Burma cartoon (based on novels by Léo Malet, then on his own lyrics), conceives "It was trench warfare" in 1982 (and completed in 1993), "Killers of cockroaches" in 1983 and "Games to die" in 1992, albums released by Casterman.
In 2000 Daniel Pennac him write the screenplay of Debauchery. His adaptation of The Cry of the People, which he signed only adaptation, it allows both to honor the unsung heroes of the Commune and to revive the image in Paris in the late nineteenth century. of Jean Vautrin not surprising: the two men have known for several years and had already signed a book on the outskirts. When the novel of Vautrin appeared in 1999, is Tardi who designed the cover. He who sought to write a story as part of the Paris Commune was found, with this novel full of breath and passions, the ideal scenario. The Cry of the People, which he signed only adaptation, it allows both to honor the unsung heroes of the Commune and to revive the image in Paris in the late nineteenth century. This fresco four-volume "Italian" is already announced as one of the vertices of the graphic works of Jacques Tardi.
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