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"Fantagraphics presents two experimental, early works by the French cartooning legend Tardi. These comics, created in the mid-'70s, provide a fascinating preview of the masterworks of his prolific career. While they are not narratively linked, an eerie sense of foreboding suffuses stories in this collection: they both depict sex and brutal violence and condemn the horrors of war. The True Story of the Unknown Soldier follows a pulp novelist turned soldier who, driven to delirium amidst the trenches of WWI, becomes tormented by visions of his own seedy creations. This stream-of-consciousness tale visualizes the tortured psyche of its protagonist through dazzling dreamscapes and surreal scenarios. In The National Razor, a soldier returns from war a shattered man. Drowning himself in drink, he wanders the streets of Paris without purpose; in this numb stupor, he finds himself caught up in strange situations, lashes out in unexpectedly violent ways, and ultimately meets with a bloody end. At once a visceral depiction of the trauma wrought by war and a powerful denunciation of the death penalty and France's iconic guillotine. "

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• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Product Type: Graphic Novels
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• Cover Number: 0
• Ratio: 1
• Price: 19.9900
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• ISNM: 1683965132
• EAN: 978168396513851999
• Mature: N
• Adult: N
• Writer: Tardi,
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• Diamond Series Code: 0
• Diamond Code: NOV211426
• Diamond Ship Date: 2022-01-19
• Diamond FOC Date: 2021-12-07
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