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An unexpected yet smoothly confident collaboration between the darkly cynical Jacques Tardi and the playful fantasist Jean-Claude Forest (of Barbarella 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.
Set in Tardi’s preferred early 20th century milieu, You Are There is drawn in his crisp 1980s neo-“clear line” style, gorgeously detailed, elegantly stylized, with impossibly deep slabs of black: You Are There is a feast for both the eyes and the brain.
"You Are There is a masterpiece — a work unique in the history of comics, one of those books one reads and re-reads." –David B. (Epileptic)
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Additional Information
| Author | Jean-Claude Forest / Jacques Tardi |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Fantagraphics Books |
| Page Count | 196pp |
| Publication Size | 8.25 x 10.75 |
| Publication Notes | Hardcover, b/w |
| Publication Date | October 14, 2009 |
| ISBN | 978-1606992944 |
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