The night before, Monday November 10th, Tardi will be in an unmissable Comica Conversation entitled Goddamn This War!, talking with Pat Mills, writer of the acclaimed series Charley’s War, illustrated by the late, great Joe Colquhoun. The evening is based on his graphic novel Putain de Guerre! and takes place in the Ciné Lumière at the Institut Français in London. On the evening of November 11th itself, Tardi will join his wife, singer-singwriter Dominique Grange (photo above by Verney), in a riveting audio-visual performance of songs, readings and big-screen projections of artwork (samples below), accompanied by accordionists from the Accordzéam ensemble. Tardi (above, photo by Véronique Huyghe) is passionate about exposing the lies and lessons behind the First World War through his remarkable graphic novels, most notably It Was The War of the Trenches and his latest, Goddamn This War! with Jean-Pierre Verney, both translated into English by Fantagraphics. He’s chosen to be here, rather than say in Paris, over the period of remembrance leading up to Armistice Day, November 11th. Next week, Jacques Tardi will make his first public appearances in London, in fact in Britain, as part of Comica Festival. World War One In Comics: Tardi on Mills, Mills on Tardi
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