Ici même

FOREST, TARDI

ISBN 10: 2203334010 / ISBN 13: 9782203334014

Published by CASTERMAN, 1979

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Bande dessinée Casterman 1979 Edition originale 1979, Casterman. in-4 broché.Côté 50 euros | Etat : Bon état. JBD4082 (Ref.: JBD4082).

Seller Inventory # 4482

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ici même
• Publisher: CASTERMAN
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2203334010
• ISBN 13: 9782203334014
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: TARDI
• Condition: Bon
• Book Type: Bande dessinée
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bandes dessinées

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Synopsis

One of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be published in Europe, and certainly one of the best and most original, Ici Même was serialized in the adult French comics monthly ( A suivre ) in the early 1980s and then released in book form. A quarter of a century later, this dark, funny, consistently surprising masterpiece has finally been translated into English.An unexpected yet smoothly confident collaboration between the darkly cynical Jacques Tardi and the playful fantasist Jean-Claude Forest (of Barbarella fame), You Are There is set on a small island off the coast of France, where unscrupulous landowners have succeeded in overtaking the land from the last heir of a previously wealthy family. That heir, whose domain, in a Beckettian twist, is now reduced to the walls that border these patches of land he used to own, prowls the walls all day, eking out a living by collecting tolls at each gate. His seemingly hopeless struggle to recover his birthright becomes complicated as the government sees a way of using his plight for the sake of political expediency, and the romantic intervention of the daughter of one of the landowners (who has her own sordid history with the politician) engenders further difficulties, culminating in an apocalyptic, hallucinatory finale.Set in Tardi’s preferred early 20th century milieu, You Are There is drawn in his crisp 1980s neo-“clear line” style, gorgeously detailed, elegantly stylized, with impossibly deep slabs of black. You Are There is a feast for both the eyes and the brain.