Paris, 1950s. Nestor Burma s past comes knocking when Belita, a
young gypsy woman, leads him to the Salpetriere hospital where he
discovers the recently deceased Abel Benoit, an old buddy from his
anarchist days. While Burma has chosen to move onto the (more or
less) straight and narrow as a private eye, his friend had stayed
on the other side of the law as a counterfeiter and worse, until
his own past caught up with him, lethally. So now it s up to Malet
to avenge his friend, keep the girl safe, and hopefully unravel a
mystery whose roots run far and deep back into the past...
Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge is the first of four major graphic
novels adapted by Tardi from the legendary French crime writer Leo
Malet s original Nestor Burma novels each set in Paris, and each
taking place in, and defined by, a different arrondissement. Tardi
s stylish use of mechanical gray tones provides the book with a
lovely period feel, and the very specific autobiographical elements
of the original novel (Malet himself frequented the anarchist/vegan
hostel that serves as the backdrop for the flashback sequences of
Burma s youth) combined with Tardi s usual obsessive visual
research give it a uniquely personal, authentic quality.
Created in the 1980s, Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge was an historic
attempt on Tardi s part to inject a level of literary heft and
ambition into the comics field, which back then was still
struggling for legitimacy. The result is a cracking good detective
yarn and a milestone in comics history.
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