I probably should say this first: this book is titled I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag Iib, Vol. 1 . And it’s credited to “Tardi.”
One might easily assume “Tardi” means “Rene Tardi,” the chap who was a Pow. But one would be wrong.
Rene died in 1986, and never drew comics.
This “Tardi” is his son Jacques, who originally used both of those names for his bandes dessinees until the weight of all of those other French cartoonists who only use one name got to be too much for him, and he succumbed to the lure of the single moniker.
Even in a case, like this one, where that creates confusion. Style is more important than anything else, eh mes amis?
Rene Pow is a 2012 comic — translated into English for a 2018 publication in the Us — based on a series of notebooks that Jacques made during conversations with his father in the early ’80s.
One might easily assume “Tardi” means “Rene Tardi,” the chap who was a Pow. But one would be wrong.
Rene died in 1986, and never drew comics.
This “Tardi” is his son Jacques, who originally used both of those names for his bandes dessinees until the weight of all of those other French cartoonists who only use one name got to be too much for him, and he succumbed to the lure of the single moniker.
Even in a case, like this one, where that creates confusion. Style is more important than anything else, eh mes amis?
Rene Pow is a 2012 comic — translated into English for a 2018 publication in the Us — based on a series of notebooks that Jacques made during conversations with his father in the early ’80s.
- 8/29/2019
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
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