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Adèle Blanc-Sec #6
O Afogado com Duas Cabeças
Despertada por Lucien Brindavoine após seis anos de criogenia, Adèle Blanc-Sec regressa a um mundo ainda a recuperar de quatro anos de guerra mundial. Mas assim que regressa a casa, tem de enfrentar novos mistérios: quem pagou a renda? quem manteve o apartamento? quem continua atrás da sua vida? Enquanto uma nova e estranha criatura ronda Paris, Adèle tenta responder a estas questões, ajudada nas suas investigações pelos membros de um estranho grupo de circo.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
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Jacques Tardi
296 books209 followersJacques Tardi is a French comics artist, born 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme. He is often credited solely as Tardi.
After graduating from the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, he started writing comics in 1969, at the age of 23, in the comics magazine Pilote, initially illustrating short stories written by Jean Giraud and Serge de Beketch, before creating the political fiction story Rumeur sur le Rouergue from a scenario by Pierre Christin in 1972.
A highly versatile artist, Tardi successfully adapted novels by controversial writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline or crime novelist Léo Malet. In Malet's case, Tardi adapted his detective hero Nestor Burma into a series of critically acclaimed graphic novels, though he also wrote and drew original stories of his own.
Tardi also created one of French comics' most famous heroines, Adèle Blanc-Sec. This series recreates the Paris of early 20th century where the moody heroine encounters supernatural events, state plots, occult societies and experiments in cryogenics.
Another graphic novel was Ici Même which was written by Jean-Claude Forest, best known as the creator of Barbarella. A satire, it describes the adventures of Arthur Même who lives on the walls of his family's former property.
Tardi has produced many antiwar graphic novels and comics, mainly focusing on the collective European trauma of the First World War, and the pitfalls of patriotism spawned several albums (Adieu Brindavoine, C'était la guerre des tranchées, Le trou d'obus, Putain de Guerre...). His grandfather's involvement in the day-to-day horrors of trench warfare, seems to have had a deep influence to his artistic expression. He also completed a four-volume series on the Paris Commune, Le cri du peuple.
Fantagraphics Books translate and publish in English a wide range of Tardi's books, done by editor and translator Kim Thompson.[3] The books released so far are West Coast Blues (Le Petit bleu de la côte ouest), You Are There (Ici Même), and It Was the War of the Trenches (C'était la guerre des tranchées); a single album collecting the first two Adele Blanc-Sec volumes has also been published.
->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_...
After graduating from the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, he started writing comics in 1969, at the age of 23, in the comics magazine Pilote, initially illustrating short stories written by Jean Giraud and Serge de Beketch, before creating the political fiction story Rumeur sur le Rouergue from a scenario by Pierre Christin in 1972.
A highly versatile artist, Tardi successfully adapted novels by controversial writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline or crime novelist Léo Malet. In Malet's case, Tardi adapted his detective hero Nestor Burma into a series of critically acclaimed graphic novels, though he also wrote and drew original stories of his own.
Tardi also created one of French comics' most famous heroines, Adèle Blanc-Sec. This series recreates the Paris of early 20th century where the moody heroine encounters supernatural events, state plots, occult societies and experiments in cryogenics.
Another graphic novel was Ici Même which was written by Jean-Claude Forest, best known as the creator of Barbarella. A satire, it describes the adventures of Arthur Même who lives on the walls of his family's former property.
Tardi has produced many antiwar graphic novels and comics, mainly focusing on the collective European trauma of the First World War, and the pitfalls of patriotism spawned several albums (Adieu Brindavoine, C'était la guerre des tranchées, Le trou d'obus, Putain de Guerre...). His grandfather's involvement in the day-to-day horrors of trench warfare, seems to have had a deep influence to his artistic expression. He also completed a four-volume series on the Paris Commune, Le cri du peuple.
Fantagraphics Books translate and publish in English a wide range of Tardi's books, done by editor and translator Kim Thompson.[3] The books released so far are West Coast Blues (Le Petit bleu de la côte ouest), You Are There (Ici Même), and It Was the War of the Trenches (C'était la guerre des tranchées); a single album collecting the first two Adele Blanc-Sec volumes has also been published.
->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_...
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May 21, 2024
Slechtste strip die ik ooit gelezen heb denk ik🥴
January 15, 2020
A challenging read since I've only had a semester of French and that was more years ago than I care to say, but I muddled through with some help from a translating app. The slow, steady read, though really gave me a chance to appreciate Tardi's artwork and wordplay. This is Adele's first post-World War I story. After being frozen through the war, she finds herself embroiled in an assassination plot while a giant octopus ravages Paris, all on the day of the armistice.
January 2, 2023
I liked this one. There is a lot of understated (and funny) dialogue about the craziness of society. World War I is just finished and the horrors of that war caused by incompetent leaders is humorously and sarcasticly commented upon by the characters.
Tardi is known for his many antiwar graphic novels and comics, mainly focusing on the collective European trauma of the Great War and the pitfalls of patriotism.
The plot hobbles along and is not really that important (in the next books of these series the plot is revealed). This is one big hilarious critisism on the absurdities of war and the people who are resposible for it.
The conclusion is in book 7: “Everyone a Monster”
The Drowned Man with Two Heads (book 6), the story starts in book 5 and is concluded in book 7. (see below for a list of all the adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec.
These 3 books belong together. Really book 4 starts it, but in the beginning of book 5 an explanation is provided.
Writer/Artist: Jacques Tardi (1946- )
About Tardi:
His style is simple “ligne claire” (clear line) as they call it. I like it. Tardi's work also satirises the concept of the flawless hero by using a series of inept, naive or anti-heroic main characters. Which is very well shown in this series.
Adele Blanc-Sec is a freelance writer who operates in Paris, first before World War I, then in the 1920s.
This series recreates the Paris of early 20th century where the moody heroine encounters mad scientist, supernatural events, state plots, occult societies and experiments in cryogenics and a host of other weird creatures.
The Series:
1 Adele et la Bete [Adele And The Beast] (1976) 2. Le Demon de la Tour Eiffel [The Demon Of The Eiffel Tower] (1976) 3. Le Savant Fou [The Mad Scientist] (1977) 4. Momies en Folie [Mummies On Parade] (1978) 5. Le Secret de la Salamandre [The Secret Of The Salamander] (1981) 6. Le Noye a Deux Tetes [The Drowned Man With Two Heads] (1985) 7. Tous des Monstres [Everyone A Monster] (1994) 8. Le Mystere des Profondeurs [The Mystery of the Depths] (1998) 9. Le Labyrinthe Infernal [The Infernal Labyrinth] (2007)
They should be read in order.
As off book 5 the society critical undertone of the books are becoming more pronounced.
Tardi is known for his many antiwar graphic novels and comics, mainly focusing on the collective European trauma of the Great War and the pitfalls of patriotism.
The plot hobbles along and is not really that important (in the next books of these series the plot is revealed). This is one big hilarious critisism on the absurdities of war and the people who are resposible for it.
The conclusion is in book 7: “Everyone a Monster”
The Drowned Man with Two Heads (book 6), the story starts in book 5 and is concluded in book 7. (see below for a list of all the adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec.
These 3 books belong together. Really book 4 starts it, but in the beginning of book 5 an explanation is provided.
Writer/Artist: Jacques Tardi (1946- )
About Tardi:
His style is simple “ligne claire” (clear line) as they call it. I like it. Tardi's work also satirises the concept of the flawless hero by using a series of inept, naive or anti-heroic main characters. Which is very well shown in this series.
Adele Blanc-Sec is a freelance writer who operates in Paris, first before World War I, then in the 1920s.
This series recreates the Paris of early 20th century where the moody heroine encounters mad scientist, supernatural events, state plots, occult societies and experiments in cryogenics and a host of other weird creatures.
The Series:
1 Adele et la Bete [Adele And The Beast] (1976) 2. Le Demon de la Tour Eiffel [The Demon Of The Eiffel Tower] (1976) 3. Le Savant Fou [The Mad Scientist] (1977) 4. Momies en Folie [Mummies On Parade] (1978) 5. Le Secret de la Salamandre [The Secret Of The Salamander] (1981) 6. Le Noye a Deux Tetes [The Drowned Man With Two Heads] (1985) 7. Tous des Monstres [Everyone A Monster] (1994) 8. Le Mystere des Profondeurs [The Mystery of the Depths] (1998) 9. Le Labyrinthe Infernal [The Infernal Labyrinth] (2007)
They should be read in order.
As off book 5 the society critical undertone of the books are becoming more pronounced.
December 26, 2020
Something of a return to form, with Adele taking more of a lead and a sense of an antiwar counterculture.
(Spoiler alert.)
On the eve of the WWI armistice, a tentacled monster drags people into the canals of Paris, drowning them. Meanwhile, Adele is brought back to her flat by Lucien Brindavoine, after six years of suspended animation. In her bathroom, Adele finds dwarf Siamese twins with four arms and a head with two noses: in his mouth is a letter for her.
Investigating the drownings, Commissioner Laumanne finds that one of the victims has two heads.
Brindavoine returns to Adele’s flat, where he is arrested by Laumanne, who takes him to the Quai des Orfèvres (police HQ) and has him beaten up.
Adele heads to the address mentioned in the letter, meeting and joining forces with Panade on the way. At their destination, Panade is distraught to find the dead body of his friend, the clown Norbert, who has apparently died by hanging. On returning to her flat, Adele is chloroformed and taken to meet performers from the Winter Circus. One of them is Bibi, the Siamese twins from her flat, whose brother was the two-headed victim. They tell Adele they know the secret of the real causes of WWI. They go to the Gare du Nord to meet another clown off a train from the front, but it is derailed by the tentacled monster.
That night, all sides converge to see the Winter Circus. Another clown is killed in his dressing room. The murderer, dressed as his victim, wassails a general in the audience, who is infamous for having shot hundreds of French mutineers. The imposter clown kills the general with curare before being shot by the police. Adele and her friends slip away. Brindavoine recognises the leader of the performers as his former comrade in arms Roy, who explains that they wanted Adele’s help to stop the murder plot.
(Spoiler alert.)
On the eve of the WWI armistice, a tentacled monster drags people into the canals of Paris, drowning them. Meanwhile, Adele is brought back to her flat by Lucien Brindavoine, after six years of suspended animation. In her bathroom, Adele finds dwarf Siamese twins with four arms and a head with two noses: in his mouth is a letter for her.
Investigating the drownings, Commissioner Laumanne finds that one of the victims has two heads.
Brindavoine returns to Adele’s flat, where he is arrested by Laumanne, who takes him to the Quai des Orfèvres (police HQ) and has him beaten up.
Adele heads to the address mentioned in the letter, meeting and joining forces with Panade on the way. At their destination, Panade is distraught to find the dead body of his friend, the clown Norbert, who has apparently died by hanging. On returning to her flat, Adele is chloroformed and taken to meet performers from the Winter Circus. One of them is Bibi, the Siamese twins from her flat, whose brother was the two-headed victim. They tell Adele they know the secret of the real causes of WWI. They go to the Gare du Nord to meet another clown off a train from the front, but it is derailed by the tentacled monster.
That night, all sides converge to see the Winter Circus. Another clown is killed in his dressing room. The murderer, dressed as his victim, wassails a general in the audience, who is infamous for having shot hundreds of French mutineers. The imposter clown kills the general with curare before being shot by the police. Adele and her friends slip away. Brindavoine recognises the leader of the performers as his former comrade in arms Roy, who explains that they wanted Adele’s help to stop the murder plot.
April 5, 2023
***SPOILERS*** «The drowned with two heads" (or «The Disfigurement from the Saint-Martin Canal» as it is called in Danish) takes place exclusively on Monday 11 November 1918, the day the First World War ends. Adèle has woken up again after 6 years of hibernation. She finds out that her apartment has been taken care of, we get to know a number of people and around a circus, i.a. a cousin of Brindavoine. A new policeman has taken over from Caponi who died before the war, he is if possible even dumber, but more brutal. The undertone of this story is altogether more cynical, more pessimistic than ever before. The gloom of the previous carnage rests over everything. Mysterious things happen that have no explanation; tentacles materialize and kill random people, some say they know the true causes of the First World War, but we are not told what they are. Those who want traditional stories where mysteries have their solution may be frustrated by this, but if you just let yourself be carried away by Tardi's whims and fabrications, there is much to be gained. The drawings just keep getting better and better, and the humor is still prominent. And it ends with a cliffhanger as it should.
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March 18, 2025
o grafismo e os desenhos são fantástico
assim como o ambiente
mas a história é confusa
especialmente se lida ou relida anos depois dos outros livros da sequência
assim como o ambiente
mas a história é confusa
especialmente se lida ou relida anos depois dos outros livros da sequência
November 29, 2025
o, these are /all/ abt nothing. I get it
July 8, 2025
See volume one for comments on the series. This one continues the Brindavoine series crossover, but it’s proper bonkers, utterly surreal with a tentacle monster irrupting at random moments into a bizarre conspiracy about the causes and the end of the First World War, involving murderous clowns. Can it get any weirder? One thing about this episode: the art is superb, especially the backgrounds showing Paris in all its glory from the monuments to the less salubrious backstreets. There’s a lot of angry proletarian politics in this episode too.
May 5, 2012
Not until I started reading this album did I realise it was the sixth one. Nothing really happens in this one, though.
November 10, 2008
Completement fou, ce dessinateur.
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