Jacques Tardi ou le parti pris de la continuité

Abstract

Ici Même, the first graphic novel drawn by Jacques Tardi (on a script by Jean-Claude Forest), was divided in chapters, indicating the serialization in the monthly magazine (A Suivre). In his later works, however, including Moi, René Tardi, prisonnier de guerre au Stalag IIB, Tardi, against the practice that becomes common for the comic narratives of a certain length, will refuse as much as possible the principle of chapters, prefering to submerging his readers in a continuity, an uninterrupted flow. Nevertheless, certain evidences of distinct sections can be observed in C'était la guerre des tranchées and, more obviously, in Jeux pour mourir.

Keywords

• graphic novel
• « (A Suivre) »
• chapters
• Jacques Tardi
• serialization
• subdivision