![]() ![]() Most of the stories are announced only by the date, yet it’s a specific intention to avoid the more prominent campaigns as Tardi’s interest is confined to the people and their suffering, and he investigates that in so many ways. This isn’t a collection for the unwary, as even filtered through Tardi’s cartooning the results are gruesome, perhaps most so in the final story displaying the injuries survivors were going to have to carry through life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Firstly he wasn’t working to such a strict deadline, and secondly his representation of the injuries suffered on battlefields and in the trenches could be far more graphic. It’s probably the case that neither of the writers would care, their shared concern being to present as accurate a portrayal as possible of the horrors faced by the ordinary conscript in this most wasteful of conflicts.Īs his short strips weren’t being serialised in a weekly comic for young boys, Tardi had two distinct advantages. When it comes to the best graphic novels about World War I it’s pretty much a toss-up as to whether Charley’s War by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun tops the list, or if that honour should be bestowed on Jacques Tardi. ![]()
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