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Barbarella (Paperback)
Kelly Sue Deconick; Jean-Claude Forest
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R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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You Are There (Hardcover)
Jacques Tardi, Jean-Claude Forest
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R1,006
R833
Discovery Miles 8 330
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One of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be
published in Europe, and certainly one of the best and most
original, Ici Meme 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.
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