The Arctic Marauder (Adventures of Jerome Plumier) by Jacques Tardi (2011)
Requirements: CBR Reader, 101 MB.
Overview: Before Adèle Blanc-Sec, Tardi penned this retro satirical adventure, a Jules Verne-esque "icepunk" tale filled with mad scientists, monsters of the deep and fantastic machines, rendered in a stunning scratchboard style.
- 1889, the steamship l’Anjou, on route from Murmansk to Le Havre, cruises amidst icebergs when a ship is sighted on a gigantic iceberg. The captain decides to send a lifeboat to examine the wreck. Six sailors, the first mate and Jérôme Plumier, passenger and medical student, are the boarding crew.
While onboard the wreck their vessel, l’Anjou, explodes leaving the lifeboat crew as sole survivors of this event.
Genre: Comics, European Comics, Sci Fi, One-Shot.
The Arctic Marauder / Le Démon des glaces
- Jacques Tardi cover, inker, penciler, writer
Paul Baresh letterer
Kim Thompson editor, translation
Published by Fantagraphics. 2011. 64 pages.
- Spectacular faux-woodcut vistas make Tardi’s groundbreaking “icepunk” story a retro classic.
In its ongoing quest to showcase the wide range of Jacques Tardi’s bibliography, Fantagraphics reaches all the way back to one of his earliest, and most distinctive graphic novels: A satirical, Jules Vernes-esque “retro-sci-fi” yarn executed on scratchboard in a stunningly detailed faux-woodcut style perfectly chosen to render the Edwardian-era mechanical marvels on display. Created in 1972, The Arctic Marauder is a downright prescient example of proto-“steampunk” science fiction — or perhaps more accurately, and to coin a spinoff genre, “icepunk.”
In 1899, “L’Anjou,” a ship navigating the Arctic Ocean from Murmansk, Russia, to Le Havre, France comes across a stunning sight: A ghostly, abandoned vessel perched high atop an iceberg. But exploring this strange apparition is the last thing the sailors will ever do, as their own ship is soon dispatched to Davy Jones’ locker via a mysterious explosion.
Enter Jérôme Plumier, whose search for his missing uncle, the inventor Louis-Ferdinand Chapoutier, brings him into contact with the sinister, frigid forces behind this — and soon he too is headed towards the North Pole, where he will content with mad scientists, monsters of the deep, and futuristic submarines and flying machines. Told with brio in hilarious slabs of vintage purple prose, The Arctic Marauder works both as ripping good adventure story and parody of same, and, predating as it does the later and not dissimilar Adele Blanc-Sec series, is a keystone in Tardi’s oeuvre in his fantastical mode. 64 pages of black-and-white comics
About author:
- Jacques Tardi is a French comics artist, born 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme. He is often credited solely as Tardi.
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.
Many of Tardi’s books are published by Fantagraphics Books, edited and translated by Fantagraphics’ co-founder Kim Thompson. Books published by Fantagraphics include West Coast Blues (Le Petit bleu de la côte ouest), You Are There (Ici Même), It Was the War of the Trenches (C’était la guerre des tranchées), Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot (La Position du tireur couché) and The Arctic Marauder (Le Démon des glaces). Four books, including two albums collecting the first four Adele Blanc-Sec volumes, were previously published by NBM Publishing, the previous rightsholder to Tardi’s works.
In January 2013, Tardi was nominated as a Chevalier in France’s Legion of Honour, the country’s highest distinction. However, he turned down the distinction, citing that he will "remain a free man and not be held hostage by any power whatsoever."
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