| Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell Contributor(s): Headline, Doug (Translator), Tardi, Manchette, Jean-Patrick (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 1606996207 ISBN-13: 9781606996201 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books OUR PRICE: $16.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Crime & Mystery - Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary |
| Dewey: 741.5 |
| LCCN: 2014501190 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.6" W x 10.6" (1.30 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After the teeth-rattling, one-two punch of West Coast Blues and Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot, Jacques Tardi makes a third appointment with ace crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette for his wildest adaptation yet. Michel Hartog, a rich industrialist, hires a troubled young woman, Julie, straight out of the psychiatric asylum to which she has been consigned for several years, to work as a nanny for his bratty nephew Peter. But Hartog's seemingly altruistic impulse to help rehabilitate a troubled soul hides a darker motive: He plans to stage a fake kidnapping of his nephew and use Julie as a scapegoat. Unfortunately for Hartog, Julie proves infinitely more tough and resourceful than he expected, the kidnapping goes horribly, bloodily wrong, and now Julie and Peter are on the run, pursued both by the police and by Hartog's goons, led by the aging but fantastically dangerous contract killer Thompson -- one of Manchette's most unforgettable creations, a golem of Terminator-like tenacity who is barely slowed down by physical punishment that would instantly kill a lesser man (he does not end the book with the same amount of eyes and feet as he started). As with the other Tardi/Manchette books, Run Like Crazy... is full of moments of pitch-black humor, and a strong current of socio-political satire runs beneath its bleak surface. It's a ride to hell, but a devilishly fun one. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tardi, Jacques: - Jacques Tardi is a pioneering European cartoonist. His Adele Blanc-Sec series was adapted into a feature by Luc Besson, and he was behind the recent animated film April and the Extraordinary World. His comics are award winning (including the U.S.'s Eisners). He lives in Paris with his wife, the singer Dominique Grange, and their cats.Manchette, Jean-Patrick: - The Marseilles-born Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) authored ten short, tough-minded, highly acclaimed crime novels, as well as a multitude of other books, screen- and teleplays, magazine columns, and translations of American crime and science fiction novels. A lifelong comics fan, he also wrote the hardboiled graphic novel Griffu for Jacques Tardi in 1978, and in the late 1980s, was selected to translate the French edition of Watchmen.Headline, Doug: - Doug Headline is the son of Jean-Patrick Manchette, and a prominent French journalist, editor, writer and director. |