{"product_id":"you-are-there-hardcover-by-tardi","title":"You Are There Hardcover by Tardi","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eFantagraphics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2018-08-28)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e170\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781606992944\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e567.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe satirical masterpiece that ushered in the graphic novel era to European comics, finally available in English—the beginning of an ambitious publishing project introducing one of Europe’s most beloved cartoonists to American audiences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be published in Europe, and certainly one of the best and most original, \u003ci\u003eIci Même\u003c\/i\u003e was serialized in the adult French comics monthly (\u003ci\u003eA suivre\u003c\/i\u003e) in the early 1980s and then released in book form. A quarter of a century later, this dark, funny, consistently surprising masterpiece has finally been translated into English.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAn unexpected yet smoothly confident collaboration between the darkly cynical Jacques Tardi and the playful fantasist Jean-Claude Forest (of \u003ci\u003eBarbarella\u003c\/i\u003e fame), You Are There is set on a small island off the coast of France, where unscrupulous landowners have succeeded in overtaking the land from the last heir of a previously wealthy family. That heir, whose domain, in a Beckettian twist, is now reduced to the walls that border these patches of land he used to own, prowls the walls all day, eking out a living by collecting tolls at each gate. His seemingly hopeless struggle to recover his birthright becomes complicated as the government sees a way of using his plight for the sake of political expediency, and the romantic intervention of the daughter of one of the landowners (who has her own sordid history with the politician) engenders further difficulties, culminating in an apocalyptic, hallucinatory finale.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSet in Tardi’s preferred early 20th century milieu, \u003ci\u003eYou Are There\u003c\/i\u003e is drawn in his crisp 1980s neo-“clear line” style, gorgeously detailed, elegantly stylized, with impossibly deep slabs of black. \u003ci\u003eYou Are There\u003c\/i\u003e is a feast for both the eyes and the brain.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTardi\u003c\/b\u003e is a pioneering, internationally award-winning European cartoonist. His Adèle Blanc-Sec series was adapted into a feature by Luc Besson, and the animated film \u003ci\u003eApril and the Extraordinary World\u003c\/i\u003e was inspired by his cartooning. He lives in Paris with his wife, the singer Dominique Grange, and their cats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are worse things to be linked with than the image of a naked Jane Fonda spinning in zero gravity, but it should be stressed that \u003cb\u003eJean-Claude Forest\u003c\/b\u003e’s career in comics stretches far beyond \u003ci\u003eBarbarella\u003c\/i\u003e, the 1962 sci-fi romp that ushered in the era of adult comics first in France, then worldwide. 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