Tardi selbst schrieb dazu: Grabenkrieg ist nicht das Werk eines Historikers, es handelt sich nicht um eine chronologisch korrekte Darstellung der Geschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges in Comic-Form, sondern um eine Abfolge einzelner Situationen, die von Männern erlebt wurden, die im Schlamm festsassen und sich in ihrer Haut sichtlich nicht wohlfühlten, die manipuliert wurden und nur eine Hoffnung hatten, nämlich die nächste Stunde zu überleben, die sich nichts sehnlicher wünschten, als wieder nach Hause zu kommen, kurz, dass der Krieg aufhört! Es gibt keine Helden und keine Hauptperson in dem beklagenswerten kollektiven Abenteuer genannt Krieg. Es gibt nur einen gigantischen, anonymen Aufschrei im Todeskampf.
Jacques Tardi: artillery thunder and trench rage
Jacques Tardi, born in 1946, is the grand old man of French Comics. His great obsession is the First World War, which he has focused on throughout his 50-year career. It Was the War of the Trenches (“C’etait la Guerre des Tranchees”) and Goddamn this War! (“Putain de Guerre!”) are his Comic-book attempts to come to terms with this first great catastrophe of the 20th century. He has succeeded because he avoids conventional Comic storylines.
In his introduction to It Was the War of the Trenches, Jacques Tardi promises there are no ‘heroes’ or ‘leading lights’ in his tale of the wretched ‘adventure’ of war’: it is simply a gigantic, anonymous scream of mortal pain. And that is precisely what Tardi shows us: his low-key, page-wide images depict everyday life in the First World War trenches. Everything drips with filth and mud, soldiers are cynically sacrificed to a series of wildly surreal strategic objectives; there’s no heroism, only shit-scared cowardice, fury at being in the trenches, attempts at self-harm in the hope of escaping, diarrhoea and hopelessness.
We show a selection of pictures. The comic book contains 124 pages.
Jacques Tardi: artillery thunder and trench rage
Jacques Tardi, born in 1946, is the grand old man of French Comics. His great obsession is the First World War, which he has focused on throughout his 50-year career. It Was the War of the Trenches (“C’etait la Guerre des Tranchees”) and Goddamn this War! (“Putain de Guerre!”) are his Comic-book attempts to come to terms with this first great catastrophe of the 20th century. He has succeeded because he avoids conventional Comic storylines.
In his introduction to It Was the War of the Trenches, Jacques Tardi promises there are no ‘heroes’ or ‘leading lights’ in his tale of the wretched ‘adventure’ of war’: it is simply a gigantic, anonymous scream of mortal pain. And that is precisely what Tardi shows us: his low-key, page-wide images depict everyday life in the First World War trenches. Everything drips with filth and mud, soldiers are cynically sacrificed to a series of wildly surreal strategic objectives; there’s no heroism, only shit-scared cowardice, fury at being in the trenches, attempts at self-harm in the hope of escaping, diarrhoea and hopelessness.
We show a selection of pictures. The comic book contains 124 pages.
Octobre 1917
27. November 1916
Januar 1916
Tardi's book appeared 1993 by CASTERMAN, Bruxelles. The german edition was published by Edition Moderne, Zürich.
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