Jacques Tardi signed lithograph

"Népal 2015"

Main works :

Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec, Polonius, Nestor Burma, C'était la Guerre des tranchées, Le cri du Peuple.

Artistic movement :

Comic-strip artist.

Inspiration, influence :

After a classic study (Fine arts and Art deco) he turns to the comic-strip where his first real big interest was Edgar p. Jacobs.

His contemporaries :

Jacques Tardi began with Pierre Christin (who made the transition between the generation Mézières and the one who followed). The , he has often collaborated with historians (for his work on the Great War), or writers (Pennac, Grange).

To keep in mind :

Recognized and celebrated, these last years, Jacques Tardi brought up the Comic-strip to the rank of manifesto.

To go further :

Jacques Tardi manifestly refused the Legion of Honor in 2013 by declaring "to receive nothing, neither of the present regime, nor any other political power whatever it is".