Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge: A Nestor Burma Mystery - Couverture rigide

Malet, Leo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 160699705X ISBN 13 : 9781606997055

Editeur : Fantagraphics Books, 2017

Synopsis

Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge is the first of four major graphic novels adapted by Tardi from the legendary French crime writer Léo Malet's original 'Nestor Burma' novels. Tardi's stylish use of mechanical gray tones provides the book with a lovely period feel which, combined with Tardi's usual obsessive visual research, gives it a uniquely personal, authentic quality. Tardi's adaptation is a cracking good detective yarn and a milestone in comics history.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Paris, 1950s. In this graphic novel adaptation, Nestor Burma’s past comes knocking when Bélita, a young woman, leads him to the Salpêtrière hospital, where he discovers the recently deceased Abel Benoît, 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, and hopefully unravel a mystery whose roots run far and deep back into the past...

Biographie de l'auteur

Jacques Tardi is a pioneering European cartoonist. His Adele Blanc-Sec (Casterman) series was adapted into a feature by Luc Besson, and he was behind the recent animated film April and the Extraordinary World (StudioCanal, 2015). His comics are award winning (including the U.S.'s Eisners). He lives in Paris with his wife, the singer Dominique Grange, and their cats. Léo Malet (1909-1996) was a prolific and revered French crime novelist and surrealist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 160699705X
• ISBN 13: 9781606997055
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 120