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Informationen zum Autor Tardi is a pioneering, internationally award-winning European cartoonist. His Adele Blanc-Sec series was adapted into a feature by Luc Besson, and the animated film April and the Extraordinary World was inspired by his cartooning. He lives in Paris with his wife, the singer Dominique Grange, and their cats. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung One of the earliest full-length! standalone graphic novels to be publishedin Europe! and certainly one of the best and most original! Ici Même wasserialized in the adult French comics monthly (A suivre) in the early 1980s andthen released in book form. A quarter of a century later! this dark! funny!consistently surprising masterpiece has finally been translated into English. Anunexpected yet smoothly confident collaboration between the darkly cynicalJacques Tardi and the playful fantasist Jean-Claude Forest (of Barbarella fame)! You Are There is set on a small island off the coast ofFrance! where unscrupulous landowners have succeeded in overtaking the land fromthe last heir of a previously wealthy family. That heir! whose domain! in aBeckettian twist! is now reduced to the walls that border these patches of landhe used to own! prowls the walls all day! eking out a living by collecting tollsat each gate. His seemingly hopeless struggle to recover his birthright becomescomplicated as the government sees a way of using his plight for the sake ofpolitical expediency! and the romantic intervention of the daughter of one ofthe landowners (who has her own sordid history with the politician) engendersfurther difficulties! culminating in an apocalyptic! hallucinatoryfinale.
