Jacques Tardi

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Séries principales	de	à	Rôle
(AS) Comics	1989
(Catalogues) Editeurs, agences, festivals, fabricants de para-BD...
(Catalogues) Expositions	1986	1987
(Catalogues) Prix Töpffer de la ville de Genève	1997	2005
(Catalogues) Ventes aux enchères - Artcurial	2015
(Catalogues) Ventes aux enchères - Galerie Laqua	2016
10 ans histoires d'enfance	2008
A ma mer	1983
Adieu Brindavoine	1974	1979
Adèle Blanc-Sec (Les Aventures Extraordinaires d')	1976	2017
Aventures de Mossieur Picotto (Les)	1979
Aventures extraordinaires d'Emile Moulin (Les)	1992
Blues de Novembre	1992
C'était la guerre des tranchées	1993
Celui-là	1991
Charlie Hebdo	2017
Cochon enchanté (Le)	1984
Corto Maltese (Divers)	1985
Cri du peuple (Le)	2001	2004
Cœurs simples (Les)	2017
Der des ders (Le)	1997
Dernier assaut (Le)	2016
Débauche (La)	2000
Démon des glaces (Le)	1974
Elise et les nouveaux partisans	2021
Etrangleur (L')	2006
Etrangleur (L') - Adèle Blanc-Sec	2007
Futuropolice	1984
Grange bleue	1985
Griffu	1978
Ici Même	1979
Jeux pour mourir	1992
Magiciens d'eau (Les)	1987
Mine de plomb - Chiures de gomme	1985
Moi René Tardi, prisonnier de guerre au Stalag IIB	2012	2018
Mouh mouh	1979
Nestor Burma	1982	2003
New York Mi Amor	2008
Paris sera toujours Paris (?)	1981
Perroquet des Batignolles (Le)	2011	2014
Petit bleu de la côte ouest (Le)	2005
Polonius	1977
Position du tireur couché (La)	2010
Putain de guerre !	2008	2016
Putain de journée	1992
Père-Lachaise (Le)	1995
Rumeurs sur le Rouergue	1976
Sens de la Houppelande (Le)	1991
Super Héros 1983 - 1993	1993
Tintin - Divers	1997
Tintin - Pastiches, parodies & pirates
Trou d'obus (Le)	1984
Tueur de cafards	1984
Varlot soldat	1999
Véritable histoire du Soldat Inconnu (La)	1974
Ô dingos, ô châteaux !	2011
Adèle Blanc-Sec (As aventuras extraordinárias de)	1978	1979
Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Most Extraordinary Adventures of)	1990
Après le Mur...	1990
Aqui mesmo	2018
Foi assim a guerra das trincheiras	2015
Griffu (en portugais)	1997
Ici Même (en finnois)	1979
Ik René Tardi krijgsgevangene in Stalag IIb	2012
Muro antes e depois... (O)	1990
Raw (1989)	1990
Roach Killer	1992
Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell (2015)	2015
Sacanice (A)	2000
Ware verhaal van de Onbekende Soldaat (Het)	1981

For a good thirty years, Jacques Tardi has left his mark on contemporary comics. Virtuoso of black and white, unequaled painter of dark alleys and shiny cobblestones, tireless despiser of human stupidity and obsessed with war, Tardi is one of the masters of comics. His adaptation of Le Cri du peuple, Jean Vautrin's novel about the Paris Commune, rises to the height of the rest of his work. Journey of an exceptional draftsman. Tardi is the natural father of Adèle (Blanc-Sec). He is also the adoptive father of Nestor (Burma). He is above all one of the essential figures of French comics over the past thirty years, and a major influence for many designers. Born in Valence in 1946, Jacques Tardi studied Fine Arts in Lyon before “going up” to Paris, heading to Decorative Arts. His career as a comic book author began in the pages of René Goscinny's Pilote newspaper in the early 1970s. He was entrusted with the drawing of Rumeurs sur le Rouergue, a realistic scenario written by Pierre Christin, co-author of Valérian and future screenwriter of Bilal. But Tardi is hardly comfortable with contemporary narratives. He prefers to explore a more personal vein. After various short stories, he published The Ice Demon, drawn in the style of 19th century engravings, then The True Story of the Unknown Soldier. In 1976, he gave birth to Adèle Blanc-Sec. An original female character, at a time when most comic book heroines remained confined to clichés. Adèle is confronted by mad scientists, bloodthirsty pterodactyls and resurrected pithecanthropes, all against the backdrop of pre-WWI Paris. Tardi has found his style: a mixture of fantasy, nods to popular novels and delightful second degree, in the context of a Paris that has now disappeared. A city that Tardi delights in bringing to life on his drawing sheet after having surveyed it in all directions, as an authentic enthusiast of the capital. Above all, he tackles the great subject which will never cease to obsess him: the war of 14-18, a metaphor for all the conflicts and the inexhaustible human stupidity. Deeply marked by the memories of his grandfather, he strives to feed his work with references to the "der des ders", which he stages in C'tait la guerre des trenches, published in 1982 in the monthly (To be continued), and The Shell Hole (1984). Tardi also tackles the imagery of literary works. A great admirer of Céline, he illustrated Voyage au bout de la nuit, Mort à credit and Casse-pipe. He started a series of adaptations of detective novels with Nestor Burma by Léo Malet, and in particular Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac (1982). By taking care to erase the less sympathetic aspects of the novels, sometimes imbued with an unfortunate tendency to racism. He will also adapt Games to Die, by Géo-Charles Véran (1992), and La Der des ders, by Didier Daeninckx (1997). Hanging out with writers is an old habit with Tardi. With the author of thrillers Jean-Patrick Manchette, he had already directed Griffu in the 70s. He did it again in 2000 with Daniel Pennac, who wrote the screenplay for La Débauche for him. His adaptation of Jean Vautrin's Cri du peuple is not surprising: the two men have known each other for several years and had already written a book on the suburbs. When Vautrin's novel appeared in 1999, it was Tardi who designed the cover. He who was looking to write a story within the framework of the Paris Commune found, with this novel full of breath and passion, the ideal scenario. Le Cri du peuple, the adaptation of which he signed alone, allows him both to pay homage to the unknown heroes of the Commune and to bring the Paris of the end of the 19th century to life in images. This fresco in four volumes "Italian" is already announced as one of the peaks of the graphic work of Jacques Tardi.