The Horrors Of War
Tripwire continues its 100 Graphic Novels You Should Read While Stuck Inside with its twentieth choice, two books which can be read together, It Was The War Of The Trenches and Goddamn This War By by Jacques Tardi, from Fantagraphics, reviewed by Tripwire contributing writer Joe Gordon…
It Was The War Of The Trenches/ Goddamn This War
Writers: Jacques Tardi with Jean-Pierre Verney
Artist: Jacques Tardi
Fantagraphics





And yes, I know we’re supposed to be picking individual books out here, but while you can read either of these two volumes as stand-alone works, really they are best read together as one body of work. The emotional reach of both, the sorrow, the sympathy, the anger for the suffering of a century ago are powerful, the artwork remarkable (a few facial reaction shots of the men in battle speak volumes). Tardi’s astonishing take on “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est. Pro patria mori.”
Joe Gordon
Here’s links to the other graphic novels reviewed so far