You Are There [Hardcover]

One of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be published in Europe, and certainly one of the best and most original,The workscrackpot sensibility comes from Forest, best-known for creating the similarly droll sf heroine Barbarella,but its Tardis art, with its keen compositions, carefully placed areas of black and white, and sensuous linework, that ties the untidy story together. When this cynical, surreal satire appeared in France in the late1970s, it was seen as a landmark in the development of the bande dessin?e; three decades later, it stands toplay a similarly valuable role by introducing American readers to one of Europes greatest cartoonists.Fantagraphics' panties-to-the-floor handsome English-language version...may blow its own share of minds some three decades after the work's initial publication. & It's a lost episode ofTranslated into English for the first time since it was written, more than 25 years ago, Jacques Tardi & Jean-Claude ForestsTardi's intricate, cartoony, and beautiful art perfectly expresses Forest's ideas and words. The humorousTardi has nice skinny lines and large fields of black. His architecture and cars and landscapes are amazing. ...Arthur There running up and down the walls and living in this skinny little house are neat ideas. This book talks a lot about what its like when you spend your life alone and how nuts a slutty crazy girl can make you.Of all the comics published in 2009, none has deserved more acclaim... than[The absurdity of Forest's script is brought to amazing life... It's a tremendous work of art, heightening the weirdness of the narrative very well. ... I would recommendThe satirical masterpiece that ushered in the graphic novel era to European comics, finally available in Englishthe beginning of an ambitious publishing project introducing one of Europes most beloved cartoonists to American audiences.