French Cartoonist Jacques Tardi Featured at Fantagraphics Bookstore this Saturday
From the press release:
Francophiles and Fantagraphics followers unite! On Saturday, March 12, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery hosts “Better Tardi Than Never: How France’s Greatest Living Cartoonist Took a Mere 32 Years to Break Through to American Audiences.” It examines the life’s work of Jacques Tardi. Organized by Fantagraphics Books co-publisher, editor, and Tardi translator Kim Thompson, the exhibition includes pages from the artist’s earliest English translations in 1977 to the present.
Thompson began translating Tardi in 1983 with an excerpt from It Was the War of the Trenches in RAW #5. He became a tireless advocate of this extraordinary artist, translating and publishing his work in several anthologies until American readers finally caught on. The show includes examples of each Tardi translation to reach American soil, along with a narrative explaining the context.
The reception on Saturday will feature a slide lecture by Kim at 6:30 PM. “You Don’t Know Jacques. Tardi: 20 Books in 20 Minutes” looks at the cartoonist’s career in France. The event will also feature the world premiere of Fantagraphics’ fifth Tardi book, the epic “icepunk” tale The Arctic Marauder, among other surprises.
Fantagraphics Bookstore is located at 1201 S. Vale Street in the heart of Seattle’s historic Georgetown district. Phone 206.658.0110. This event coincides with the colorful Georgetown Art Attack featuring visual and performing arts presentations throughout the neighborhood. See you then.
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